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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

1 Peter 4:14 → Isaiah 11:2

Allusion

Later text

1 Peter 4:14BSB

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

Earlier text

Isaiah 11:2BSB

The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Isaiah 11:1-3BSB

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:47

Significance

Peter applies Isaiah's prophecy of the Spirit resting on Messiah to persecuted believers, showing they share Christ's messianic anointing. Isaiah described the Spirit resting on David's descendant who would judge righteously and establish God's kingdom. Peter's hermeneutical move identifies this Spirit with "the Spirit of glory," connecting divine presence to suffering rather than triumphalism. Believers experience the same Spirit that anointed Jesus, but in the context of reproach not earthly exaltation. This demonstrates the "already/not yet" pattern: the messianic age has arrived through Christ and his Spirit, but glory comes through suffering. Christians share Christ's Spirit-anointing now, experiencing glory's foretaste in persecution while awaiting full revelation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

▸ A Shoot from the Stump of Jesse

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 11:1-10 — A Shoot from the Stump of Jesse

1 Peter 4:14 → Isaiah 11:2

Significance

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