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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 5:30 → Deuteronomy 21:22-23

Allusion

Later text

Acts 5:30BSB

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 21:22-23BSB

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Earlier text

Deuteronomy 21:23BSB

you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Significance

Peter charges the council, "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree." The phrase "on a tree" is not incidental: Deuteronomy 21:22-23 declares that "anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse." Peter sets the deepest shame — a death that marked its victim as cursed by God — against the highest exaltation: God "exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior" (v31). The type of the curse-bearing tree meets its antitype in the cross. Christ-terminus: "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us — for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree'" (Gal 3:13). The very sign of God's curse became the instrument of His blessing; on the cursed tree the Savior bore our curse, and the shame is transfigured into the throne of the Prince who grants repentance and forgiveness.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology + Contrast

▸ Cursed Is He Who Hangs

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Tree of Life (Eternal Life in Christ) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 21:23 — Cursed Is He Who Hangs on a Tree

Acts 5:30 → Deuteronomy 21:22-23

Significance

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