Luke 13-24

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Luke 13-24
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Recap

• Purpose of Luke account of most significant (not
  all!) events of Jesus life, death, and
  resurrection
• Written about 50 years after these events
• Told from the perspective of the end of the story
  resurrection of Jesus
• Therefore, it is not an objective history, but a
  faith statement in who Jesus is (and continues to
  be for Christians)

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Recap, cont.

• Luke 1-2 Jesus birth due to divine intervention
• Like other births of special figures in OT
• We will compare to Infancy Gospel of James on
  Friday (review)
• Luke 3-4 Jesus ministry begins
• Connected with Johns
• outlined in reading of Isaiah in the synagogue
  in Nazareth (ch. 4)

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Recap, cont.

• Luke 5-12 Teachings and Actions
• Ch 6 Sermon on the Plain
• Very challenging how many Christians today talk
  about this?
• Focus is on reversals what we think is success
  and happiness is not what God thinks
• Overturns human social constructions
• Challenges our ideas of what Jesus compassion is
  (he pronounces woes to people who sound like us)

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Recap, cont.

• Miracles
• Healing and forgiveness Jesus removes stigmas of
  illness, brings health both physically and
  spiritually
• Exorcisms Jesus takes away what oppresses people
• Demons vs. mental illness
• Parables distinctive form of teaching
• Message Gods coming new age (kingdom) ethics
  of inclusion and exclusion

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Parables of ch. 15

• Theme lost and found
• Gods mercy and love
• Gathering the lost into the kingdom of God (in
  your midst, 1721)
• Why not tell this in a straight speech? What does
  the parable form add?
• Prodigal Son who is prodigal (wasteful)?
• Who is the older brother? Do you sympathize with
  him?

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Passion narrative ch. 22-23

• Luke 24 hours before Jesus death
• Passover meal with disciples
• Arrest
• Trial
• Execution
• How do we see Jesus humanity here?
• Garden (2239-46)
• On the cross
• Who sentences Jesus to execution? Why?
• What are the roles of Peter and Judas?
• What meaning does Luke give this execution?

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Resurrection ch. 24

• The big revelation of who Jesus is determines
  all else in retrospect
• The Living One (245)
• What does it mean for Jesus to be resurrected?
• Not resuscitated his body seems changed
• Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 calls it a spiritual
  body still a physical body, but transformed
  somehow
• Body can be touched (2439)
• He represents the hope of all, that death is not
  the end rather, death has been conquered

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Resurrection, cont.

• What and when are the appearances of Jesus?
• Tomb not present
• Road to Emmaus why didnt the disciples
  recognize Jesus?
• Jesus explains to them from the scriptures
  (Hebrew, not NT)
• Why do they recognize Jesus in the breaking of
  the bread?
• To disciples
• Jesus explains to them from the scriptures again
• Ascension is Jesus now present or absent?
• Story continues with Acts (also by Luke)