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HUMILITY (3)
*To Pharisees, compare harsher borrowed Pharisee material at 11:37-12:1
14:1. Narrative setting at Pharisee dinner (positive and friendly)
14:2-6. Healing of man with dropsy on Sabbath (merely recapitulatory; Pharisees are seemingly convinced)
14:7-11. Take lowest place (preaching on humility)
14:12-14. Invite the poor, because they cannot repay you (Lukan theology, see Sermon on the Plain)
LOSING PLACE (3 + 1)
14:15. Narrative intro; Blessed to eat bread in the Kingdom [Mt introduces differently]
14:16-23. Parable of the Feast > spoiled in Mt 22:2-10
14:24. None invited shall taste my feast (Gentiles Only motif; Luke C addendum)
14:25-27. Cost of discipleship; must renounce all > Mt 10:37-38
14:28-33. Count cost: building tower, going to war
14:34-35. If salt has lost its taste; men throw it out > Mt 5:13 SM
REGAINING PLACE (3)
15:1-2. Narrative opening: Pharisee criticisms of consorting with the unclean.
15:3-7. Lost Sheep > Mt 18:12-14
15:8-10. Lost Coin [too small denomination for Mt]
15:11-32. Lost Son [impecuniousness of son offends Mt; he transforms it as Two Sons] > Mt 21:23-27
LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE (3 + 1)
16:1-8. Canny Steward. Rewarding enterprise on own behalf.
16:9. Interpretation added by Luke A to original story (whose moral is actually self-contained at 16:8b)
16:10-12. Later added interpretation; this and next conflict with original Lukan remark, 16:9
16.13. Later added interpretation; “God and Mammon.” < Mt 6:24 SM (SM > Lk #2)
16:14-15. Pharisees rebuked for love of money, Luke B narrative link to preceding.
16:16. Law was until John < Mt 11:12 [Luke A had no interest in law; so also next two]
16:17. Not a jot will pass from the Law < Mt 5:18 SM (SM > Lk #3)
16:18. Divorcing wife makes her an adulteress < Mt 5:32 SM (SM > Lk #4)
16:19-26. Rich Man and Lazarus. The precise point is to condemn inactivity, as the sequel shows.
16:27-31. Luke C extension of above
17:1-2. Temptations are sure to come [ Mk 9:42, relocated in Luke B for the sake of the following passages]
17:3. If your brother sins, rebuke him [Mt interest in accusations] < Mt 18:15
17:4. Forgive him seven times < Mt 18:21-22 [Mt features his favorite Peter; Lk eliminates]
17:5. If you had faith < Mt 17:20
17:7-10. Servant who does only what is required deserves no praise (original action required; cf James and Lk 6:29-30)
17:11-19. Ten Lepers, but only the Samaritan is grateful (Luke C)
17:20-21 Kingdom is in the midst of you [encouraging remark; cf Thomas]
[PREDICTION OF JESUS’ RETURN]
*Based on extra Mt material added to Mk 13
17:22. Intro to section: Days are coming. [notice paired verse structure in what follows]
17:23-24. Do not follow signs < Mt 24:26 (from Mt’s extension to the Mk 13 Apocalypse, and thus Luke B)
*This directly contradicts 17:21a, which must thus be Luke A. This B section is orthodoxizing
17:25. Son of Man Must first suffer (not in Mt)
17:26-27. Days of Noah < Mt 24:37-41 (from Mt’s extension to the Mk 13 Apocalypse)
17:28-29. Days of Lot (not in Mt)
17:30-31. So shall it be when Son of Man is revealed. (not in Mt)
17:32-33. Remember Lot’s wife; Who seeks to save his life will lose it. < Mt 10:39
17:34-35. Two will be in one bed, two women grinding < Mt 24:40-41 (see above, all Mt 24 bits are primary)
[*17:36 is a later scribal extension]
17:37. Where the [vultures] gather < Mt 24:38 (not really Luke’s sort of image)
TWO SUMMARY PARABLES (cadential 2)
18:1. Intro to Parable “about praying and not losing heart”
18:2-5. The judge who yields to repeated entreaties
18:6-8. Moral of the story
18:9. Intro to Parable “about the self-righteous”
18:10-13. Pharisee and Publican
18:14. Moral of story. Who humbles himself will be exalted