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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 6:13 → Exodus 20:16

Echo

Later text

Acts 6:13BSB

where they presented false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

Earlier text

Exodus 20:16BSB

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Psalms 27:12BSB

Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

Earlier text

Proverbs 14:5BSB

An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.

Significance

Stephen's accusers "set up false witnesses" against him — and in doing so break the very ninth commandment they profess to guard: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Exod 20:16). They join the ranks of the false witnesses who assailed the righteous sufferer of the Psalms (Ps 27:12) and the liar condemned by wisdom (Prov 14:5). The guardians of the law violate the law to silence a man "full of faith and of the Holy Spirit." Christ-terminus: the pattern is unmistakably that of Jesus' own trial, where "false witnesses" were sought against Him (Matt 26:59-61). The servant is conformed to the Master — falsely accused, radiant with the Spirit, about to behold the exalted Son of Man — so that even the injustice done to Stephen displays the fellowship of Christ's sufferings and the glory that follows.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy

▸ The Decalogue

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 20 — The Decalogue

Acts 6:13 → Exodus 20:16

Significance

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