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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 4:30 → Exodus 6:8

Allusion

Later text

Acts 4:30BSB

as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”

Earlier text

Exodus 6:8BSB

And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!'"

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Numbers 14:30BSB

Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Earlier text

Isaiah 53:5BSB

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 1:9BSB

Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:55

Significance

The church prays that God would "stretch out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy servant Jesus." The outstretched hand of God is the signature image of the exodus — the mighty hand and lifted arm by which He swore to redeem Israel and bring them into the land (Exod 6:8), the same hand that worked signs and wonders against Egypt. The believers ask the God of the exodus to act again, this time in healing and gospel-signs. Christ-terminus: the difference is that the delivering hand now moves "through the name of Jesus." The redemptive power once displayed at the Red Sea is concentrated in the risen Christ, so that every healing done in His name declares that the God who saved a nation now saves the world through His Servant.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme