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Raw Cross-Testament Parallels Output

Acts 15:10 (Peter's yoke statement)

OT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Lam 1:14 0.370 able, neck, yoke
2 Chr 30:8 0.339 father, neck
2 Ki 17:14 0.339 father, neck
Eze 11:7 0.326 put, therefore
Neh 9:16 0.321 father, neck
Gen 27:40 0.316 neck, yoke
Jer 28:14 0.315 neck, yoke
Jer 2:27 0.314 bear, father, neck

NT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
1 Cor 10:9 0.388 neither, test
Luke 14:33 0.378 able, disciple, therefore
John 5:19 0.358 able, father, therefore
Mat 15:2 0.343 disciple

Acts 15:20 (Four prohibitions)

OT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Eze 23:37 0.381 blood, idol
2 Chr 33:19 0.378 idol, write
Eze 6:4 0.366 idol
Eze 18:12 0.356 idol
Eze 36:18 0.350 blood, idol
Hos 11:2 0.350 idol
Eze 22:4 0.349 blood, idol
Eze 22:3 0.344 blood, idol
Zec 9:7 0.343 blood, idol
Eze 33:25 0.341 blood, idol

Note: OT parallels consistently link blood and idolatry -- the same combination found in the four prohibitions.

NT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Acts 15:29 0.510 blood, idol, immorality, strangled
Acts 21:25 0.503 blood, idol, immorality, strangled
Col 3:5 0.385 immorality
Rev 2:20 0.362 idol, immorality
Eph 5:3 0.355 immorality
Rev 2:14 0.351 idol, immorality
Rom 2:22 0.350 idol
Rev 17:2 0.349 immorality
1 Cor 8:7 0.345 idol
1 Thess 4:3 0.343 immorality

Note: The Rev 2:14,20 parallels are significant -- they link idolatry and fornication together in the messages to the churches, exactly matching two of the four prohibitions.


Acts 15:21 (Moses read in synagogues every sabbath)

OT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Exo 16:25 0.410 Moses, sabbath
Neh 9:14 0.383 Moses, sabbath
Exo 31:16 0.383 age, sabbath
Num 3:1 0.382 age, Moses
Lev 24:8 0.382 age, sabbath
Lev 9:1 0.376 Moses, old
Exo 31:13 0.375 age, sabbath

NT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Acts 18:4 0.445 sabbath, synagogue
Luke 4:16 0.434 read, sabbath, synagogue
Acts 13:27 0.423 read, sabbath
Luke 13:10 0.410 sabbath, synagogue
Mat 9:35 0.396 proclaim, synagogue
Luke 6:6 0.393 sabbath, synagogue
2 Cor 3:15 0.391 Moses, read
Acts 13:44 0.390 city, sabbath
Acts 13:15 0.385 read, synagogue
Mark 1:21 0.379 sabbath, synagogue

Note: The strongest NT parallels all involve sabbath + synagogue, confirming that Acts 15:21 references the established practice of sabbath synagogue attendance where Moses was read.


Romans 11:17 (Wild olive grafted in)

OT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Dan 4:11 0.327 off, tree
Judg 9:9 0.315 fatness, tree
Gen 30:37 0.314 tree
Dan 4:20 0.306 root, tree
Amos 2:9 0.304 root, tree

NT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Rom 11:24 0.464 off, tree
Luke 3:9 0.378 root, tree
Rom 11:19 0.378 branches, off
Mat 3:10 0.378 root, tree
Rom 11:16 0.269 branches, root

Ephesians 2:12 (Alienated from commonwealth of Israel)

OT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Num 25:13 0.372 covenant
Josh 9:7 0.365 covenant
1 Ki 8:23 0.361 covenant
Deut 31:7 0.359 covenant
Jer 31:33 0.345 covenant
Jer 11:3 0.342 covenant
Ezra 10:2 0.337 hope

Note: Jer 31:33 appears in the parallels -- the new covenant passage, which defines the covenant from which Gentiles were formerly alienated.

NT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Acts 1:6 0.372 time
2 Cor 5:19 0.367 Christ, world
1 Thess 2:14 0.356 Christ
Gal 3:16 0.338 Christ, covenant

Ephesians 2:19 (Fellow-citizens with the saints)

OT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Eze 36:20 0.318 (semantic match)
Deut 12:12 0.299 (semantic match)
Deut 16:11 0.297 (semantic match)

NT Parallels

Reference Score Key Terms
Phil 4:22 0.357 household, saint
Gal 4:7 0.339 longer
Phil 3:20 0.331 (semantic match -- "our citizenship is in heaven")
Heb 11:13 0.317 stranger