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

main focus seems to be on reconciling the Lukan travel narrative with that of the Gospel of
John. With a similar view, G. Ogg holds that Luke has two streams of tradition, each of which
had its own account of Jesus’ last journey from Galilee to Jerusalem, and that he makes use of
one of them (A) for writing 9:51-10:42 and the other (B) for writing 17:11-19:28. According
to Ogg, Luke had only (B) in the beginning, which was used for writing 17:11-19:28, but
somewhat later he became acquainted with another stream of tradition (A), which contains
another account of Jesus’ journey. In order to give his reader a fuller understanding of the
person and message of Jesus, Luke makes use of (A) in writing 9:51-10:42. At the same time,
when Luke acquires a record of the activities of Jesus, he edited it as is in 11:1-17:10 as such,
and added this to 9:51-10:42 as a supplement. 11:1-17:10 contains largely a record of the
activities of Jesus prior to his final journey during his ministry in Galilee, Phoenicia and the
Decapolis. Luke integrated 11:1-17:10 into Jesus’ last journey to Jerusalem because of his
concern for chronology. 6 Having observed the notion that a threefold repetition of an act
demands strong attention, G. Mackinley finds that in the Gospel there are also three
narratives with Jesus’ last journey to Jerusalem, as follows: 4:31-10:42, 11:1-14:24 and
14:25-20:18, each of which follows a chronological sequence. His attempt, as in
Schleiermacher, also reflects his concern to remove discrepancies in chronology between the
Gospel of John and the Synoptics. 7 C.J. Cadoux also finds three journeys as follows: 10:25-
13:9 as one journey, 18:9-14 as the end of another, and the triumphal entry as yet a third. He
explains the obscurity of the Lukan travel narrative by proposing that Luke intended to
eliminate discrepancies between his view of Jesus’ itinerary and Mark’s view of it. Even he
believes that all the Gospels, apart from Matthew, are historical in chronological order. 8 E.J.
Cook, who follows Cadoux’s point of view, finds four journeys in the travel narrative: 9:51-
10:42, 11:1-13:9, 13:22-13:33 and 14:25-19:28. He also tries to harmonize the Lukan travel
narrative and Johannine reports of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem: between Luke 9:51-10:42 and
the unmentioned feast in John 5, Luke 11:1-13:9 and John 7, Luke 13:22-33 and John 10, and
Luke 14:25-19:28 and the last Feast of Easter. 9
Irrespective of the sources, Luke himself
speaks of only one departure toward Jerusalem and only one arrival at Jerusalem. In addition,
Luke is not interested in the chronological and geographic details of the Journey, but rather
The Sources of Luke’s Perean Section (Chicago: UCP, 1912), 36-37.
6. Ogg, “The Central Section of the Gospel according to St Luke,” 39-53, here 40, 47-49 and 52-53.
7. G. Mackinley, “St. Luke’s Threefold Narrative of Christ’s Last Journey to Jerusalem,” The Interpreter, 7
(1910/11), 260-78, especially 269, 270.
8. C.I. Cadoux, “The Visits of Jesus to Jerusalem,” Exp 9/3 (1925), 175-192, here 176, 183.
9. E.J. Cook, “The Synoptic Indications of the Visits of Jesus to Jerusalem,” ExpTim 41 (1929/30), 121-23.
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