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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 8:22 → Jeremiah 8:6

Echo

Later text

Acts 8:22BSB

Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 8:6BSB

I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

Significance

Peter's summons — "Repent, therefore, of this wickedness, and pray... that the intent of your heart may be forgiven you" — takes up the prophetic call to repentance, sharpened by Jeremiah's lament that "no one repents of his wickedness, saying, 'What have I done?'" (Jer 8:6). Even for a man so far gone as Simon, the door of repentance stands open; the demand to turn is itself a mercy. Christ-terminus: the forgiveness Peter holds out is the very gift the exalted Jesus was raised up to give — "repentance... and forgiveness of sins" (Acts 5:31). Grace does not merely warn Simon; it calls him, as it calls every hardened heart, to turn and to live, for the Savior delights to forgive the intent of a heart that will finally cry, "What have I done?"

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