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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 9:25 → Joshua 2:15

Echo

Later text

Acts 9:25BSB

One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.

Earlier text

Joshua 2:15BSB

Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:43

Significance

To save Saul from a plot on his life, his disciples "took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall" — a deliverance that recalls Rahab lowering the spies "by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall" (Josh 2:15). God preserves His newly called witness through the same kind of humble, hidden escape by which He once preserved the spies at Jericho. Christ-terminus: the Lord who guarded His servants then guards Saul now, for the persecutor-turned-preacher is indispensable to the mission of the risen Christ. No plot of men against Christ's messengers can thwart the advance of His gospel; even an undignified nighttime escape in a basket serves the sovereign purpose that will carry Paul to the Gentiles and kings.

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