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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 5:31 → Deuteronomy 32:15

Echo

Later text

Acts 5:31BSB

God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 32:15BSB

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Judges 3:9BSB

But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

Earlier text

Judges 11:6BSB

“Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”

Significance

Peter proclaims that God exalted Jesus "as Prince and Savior (sōtēr) to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins." The title reaches back along a long canonical thread: the LORD Himself is "the Rock of his salvation" whom faithless Israel scorned (Deut 32:15), and He is the God who repeatedly "raised up a savior" (Judg 3:9; 11:6) to rescue His people from their enemies. Those deliverers could win a battle but could not touch the deeper bondage of sin. Christ-terminus: the risen Jesus is the true and final Savior in the line of every God-given deliverer — exalted not merely to break an external yoke but to grant what no judge or king ever could, "repentance... and forgiveness of sins." The pattern of saviors reaches its telos in the one Savior whose salvation is worth having.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme