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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 4:32 → Deuteronomy 6:5

Echo

Later text

Acts 4:32BSB

The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 6:5BSB

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

1 Chronicles 12:38BSB

All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king.

Significance

Luke describes the believers as "one in heart and soul" (kardia kai psychē mia), a phrase that gathers up the Shema's summons to love the LORD "with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deut 6:5) and Israel's ideal unity in coming "with one heart" to make David king (1 Chr 12:38). Whole-hearted love for God, poured out by the Spirit, produces a community whose members hold nothing back from one another. The vertical devotion of the Shema bears horizontal fruit: they share everything in common. Christ-terminus: this unity is not native to fallen humanity but the fruit of the risen Christ's grace resting on them all (v33) — a first taste of the new-covenant heart, the law of love written within, and a preview of the one flock of the one Shepherd.

Found via: Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy

▸ The Shema

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Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 — The Shema

Acts 4:32 → Deuteronomy 6:5

Significance

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