Jesus is looking back at a traditional way of describing Israel’s relationship with God and applying now to his own followers by creating new connections between related eschatological traditions. This observation will help to interpret several difficult texts in the Synoptic gospels, such as the burning of the city in Matt 22:7. In order to track this development and application of a text or tradition, an intertextual study must pass through several steps if it is to be successful. First, following