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3 - Jesus as a healer of craving desire (14.1–6)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2009

Willi Braun
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Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec
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Luke 14.1–6 is a single unit where 14.1 bears the double duty of introducing both the healing scene and the dinner episode as a whole. Several commentators consider 14.1 to be a complete sentence and so posit a division between 14.1 and 14.2 (e.g., Plummer, 1914, p. 354; Marshall, 1978, p. 578; RSV). This is doubtful. The entire first verse is merely the protasis; the apodosis begins with καὶ ἰδού (14.2) and not with καὶ αὐτοί (14.1b), a paratactic element of the protasis. As Fitzmyer points out, ‘unstressed kai autos functions in a special way in the kai egeneto construction in some instances. There Luke uses it to continue a paratactic, epexegetical description which is at times parallel to the temporal clause.’ Hence I would translate the first sentence thus: ‘And it happened, after he went into the house of a certain ruler of the Pharisees one sabbath to eat bread, and they were watching him, that (καί), behold, a certain man who had dropsy was before him.’

Despite the fact that this passage recounts a healing miracle it is not formally a miracle story. The therapeutic action is neither the focal point of the story nor important in itself.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1995

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