# Block reference

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/block-reference/674>\
**Category:** Feature archive\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/block-reference/674 "2020-05-28T11:00:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sellaro](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/sellaro/32/494_2.png) [@Sellaro](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Sellaro)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/block-reference/674/36 "2020-06-01T18:34:57Z")

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> [@1TrueArkad](#):
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> Does anyone see why that wouldn’t work?

There are a few use cases where it is not that simple without a better block implementation. For example, you can quote Matthew 28:18 by doing this: [[Matthew 28#18]].

 ![Screenshot from 2020-06-01 14-28-11](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/1X/ed4c923a9f372b010d87b6e49f2b203ffebc3983.png)

You can even trasnclude directly the content of Matthew 28:19.

 ![Screenshot from 2020-06-01 14-31-22](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/1X/f4f20f631c0efb16a848cc1482e8b6c50e6d246d.png)

What you **can not** do, though is to know exactly how many references you have to Matthew 28:18. The current implementation only allows you to see the pages that link to [[Matthew 28]] and not specifically to [[Matthew 28#18]] or [[Matthew 28#19]].

 ![Screenshot from 2020-06-01 14-33-14](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/1X/13ae59136e6a2bcc1107905f61429b4e1749f29a.png)

Header reference and header transcusion are great first steps. As I mentioned on the feature request header:

> [@Sellaro](#):
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> This feature is like the stage 3 of transclusion (full file transclusion as stage 1; header transculsion as stage 2).

Hopefully this clarified a bit more the request.

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