the role of the lukan parables in terms of the purpose of luke's gospel

inclusio with 24:50 as well. Moreover, there are many verbal links between 19:47-48 and
20:1 and between 19:47-48 and 21:37-38. But he carefully adds that for Luke not much
emphasis is put on separating the travel narrative from the Jerusalem section. 18
In recent years, F. Noël argues that the travel narrative ends with 19:28, basically under
four headings. Firstly, he claims that the end of the Parable of the Pounds (19:1-17) is 19:28.
For him, the parable is intimately related to 19:28, in that with ,
Luke refers to the preceding parable in 19:28, and with the repetition of Jerusalem, 19:11 and
19:28 form a literary inclusio. For Luke the difference of the name of Jerusalem in 19:11
() and 19:28 (), like two attitudes towards the king in the Parable of
Pounds, represents two aspects which come into being in the royal and heavenly
enthronement (), and at the same time, the destruction of the city
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().
Secondly, Noël believes that after 19:28, the travel notices present only Jesus’ approach of
the city such as 19:29 (), 19:37 () and 19:41
(), not travel notices themselves. In other words, it is not
reasonable to regard as the terminus technicus of the travel section, since Jesus is
travelling around throughout the Gospel. Even the verb is generally used outside the
travel section to show the approach to a town and city (7:12; 18:35, 40; 19:29, 37, 41; 24:28
for town among eighteenth times). Jesus is travelling around in the Galilean section, whereas
in the travel section he has a clear and explicit goal connected with Jerusalem in mind. He
admits that Luke follows Mark’s travel narrative and depends on the Markan source
particularly in the beginning (Lk 9:51-10:1) and end (18:31-19:28) of the travel narrative of
Luke, albeit with some redactional additions and changes. Moreover, Luke’s interest in the
travel narrative does not lie in this direction, but rather in the fact that Jesus is on his way
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toward Jerusalem as his destination.
Thirdly, Noël feels that the Parable of the Pounds is the concluding pericope of the travel
narrative. He holds that the Parable of the Pounds hermeneutically functions as a commentary
of Luke’s narrative construction, linking Luke’s version of the parable and the context,
characterized by the transition of the travel narrative into the Jerusalem section. Luke makes
an interpretative pause at the end of the travel narrative by means of putting the parable in
18. Székely, Structure and Theology of the Lucan ‘Itinerarium’, 97-99.
19. Noël, The Travel Narrative in the Gospel of Luke: Interpretation of Lk 9:51-19:28, 283-285.
20. Ibid., 285-296.
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