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The serpent lifted up

In the wilderness, Israelites bitten by snakes lived by looking at a bronze serpent Moses raised on a pole. Jesus told Nicodemus that He too must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes may live.

Strong allusion or echoHigh confidence

A substantial textual relationship supported by cited evidence.

Old TestamentNumbers 21:8-9Open this record
Strong allusion or echo
New TestamentJohn 3:14-15Open this record

Read the earlier witness

8The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
Numbers 21:8-9 New International Version (NIV)The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Read the later witness

14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
John 3:14-15 New International Version (NIV)The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Why FaithGraph draws this line

John 3:14-15 alludes to Numbers 21:8-9.

Jesus Himself draws the comparison: as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so that the bitten might live, so the Son of Man must be lifted up so that believers may have eternal life.

Evidence

The explanation above is FaithGraph editorial content, not Scripture.