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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 7:57 → Leviticus 24:14

Echo

Later text

Acts 7:57BSB

At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.

Earlier text

Leviticus 24:14BSB

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Numbers 15:35BSB

And the LORD said to Moses, "The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp."

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 17:5BSB

you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

Walk the Square · this video walks Acts 7:54-57 as a whole, from Acts 7.56 → Daniel 7.13-1413:45

Significance

"At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him" (Acts 7:57). The council's fury takes the form of a lynching that apes the legal form of stoning for blasphemy (Leviticus 24:14; Deuteronomy 17:7) — the very penalty the law reserved for those who cursed God — now turned against a man filled with the Spirit who has just beheld God's glory. Stephen dies under the color of Moses' law by those who "have not kept it" (7:53). Luke's irony is exact: the guardians of the law break it to silence the witness of Christ, condemning as a blasphemer the one who saw heaven opened. So the pattern of the rejected righteous reaches Stephen, who follows his Lord — condemned on a religious charge, executed outside the city — and in that fellowship of suffering shares his Lord's vindication.

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