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The Church in the Gospel of Luke
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The Christian community or as it is more commonly termed ‘the Church’ is usually thought of as coming into existence after the death and resurrection of Jesus. The purpose of this essay is to argue that, at least for Luke, the Church comes into existence during the ministry of Jesus. In Luke's presentation of the disciples and in his discussion on discipleship it is his intent to set before his readers a model Christian community. The disciples in the third Gospel are not meant to prefigure the Church nor to represent the Church in embryo: they are the Church, albeit in idealised form. This conclusion is based on a study of the way Luke uses and adapts traditions about the disciples in his Gospel. But before we turn to this evidence three possible objections to our thesis must be considered.
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page 121 note 3 No other ‘church idea’ finds prominence in the third Gospel. The community around Jesus is not called Israel or the new Israel. Just once, in a traditional phrase the word 
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page 127 note 29 The significant detail in all these references is that only Luke speaks of a large group of disciples in this way.
page 127 note 30 Which number should be read and what the number symbolises is disputed. Many scholars argue that the allusion is to Gen. 10 where it is said that there are 70 nations of the world (the LXX has a textual variant which reads 72). Others think the primary reference is to Num. 11: 16–17, 24–5 where 70 elders are appointed to assist Moses. See Metzger, B., ‘Seventy or Seventy Two Disciples?’ NTS, 5, 1958–1959, pp. 199fGoogle Scholar; S. Wilson, op. cit., pp. 45–7; Marshall, I. H., The Gospel of Luke, pp. 414–415.Google Scholar
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page 131 note 46 Ibid., p. 429. The story appears, in a modified form, at 22:24–30.
page 131 note 47 In Mark 8:27–30 the disciples see the light even as the blind man in the preceding story did (vv. 22–26).
page 131 note 48 The phase 
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page 137 note 70 F. Schutz, Ibid., p. 17 argues that both Lk. 9:23 and 14:27 mean much the same but we have suggested a difference. For Schutz both mean to live everyday in ‘eine Grenzsituation des Lebens’ A more thorough and better discussion of cross-bearing is found in A. Schulz, Nachfolgen und Nachahmen: Studien über das Verhällnis der neutestamentlichen Jungerschafl zur urchristlichen Vorbildethik; Munich, 1962, pp. 82–5. He shows that the idea, not found in early Rabbinic literature (see S. & B., 1, p. 587), belongs to Roman Justice. It means for the disciple: ‘Mein Gefahrte kann nur sein, wer mit der Ubernahme von Leiden und Todeinverstanden ist. Das Kreuzauf sichnehmenheisstTodesbereit sein;es bedeutet das eigene Leben hassen.’ (p. 85)
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).
page 139 note 79 R. Bultmann, op. cit., p. 336. The notices of movement (Lk. 9: 57,10: 1,17,38, 11: 1, 13: 10, 14: I, 25) and destination (Lk. 9:15,13:22,33,17: 11,18: 35,19: 1,11) in the Lukan travel narrative are not part of the traditional units but part of the editor's framework.
page 139 note 80 E. E. Ellis, op. cit., p. 148.
page 139 note 81 There is some debate as to where this section ends but this is not a relevant issue to our study.
page 139 note 82 Much has been written on this central section of Luke's Gospel. See Schneider, J., ‘Zur Analyse des lukanischen Reiseberichts’, Synoplische Shuiian, Festschrift für A. Wilkenhauser, Stuttgart, 1953, pp. 207–229Google Scholar, who summarises the discussion up to 1953. More recent important discussions have come from Lampe, G. W. H., ‘The Holy Spirit in the Writings of St Luke’, Studies in the Gospels, ed. Nineham, D. E., London, 1955, pp. 159–200Google Scholar; Evans, C. F. ‘The Central Section of St Luke's Gospel’ in the same volume, pp. 37–53Google Scholar; Grundmann, W., ‘Fragen der Komposition des lukanischen “Reiseberichts”‘, ZNW, 1959, pp. 252ffGoogle Scholar; Robinson, W. C., ‘The Theological Context for Interpreting Luke's Travel Narrative, 9:51’, JBL, 79, 1969, pp. 20–31Google Scholar; Gill, D., ‘Some Observations on the Lukan Travel Narrative and Some Related Passages’, HTR, 63, 1970, pp. 199–221.CrossRefGoogle Scholar See also H. Conzelmann, op. cit., pp. 60f; Marshall, I. H., Luke: Historian, pp. 148–153Google Scholar and B. Reicke, op. cit., pp. 164–9.
page 139 note 83 See B. Reicke, W. C. Robinson and especially D.Gill, op. cit., Conzelmann, H., Die Mille der Zeit, (5th ed. 1964), p. 59Google Scholar also accepts that teaching on discipleship is a basic theme in the travel narrative. Marshall, I. H., The Gospel of Luke, op. cit., p. 402Google Scholar, cautions against defining too precisely the theme or themes in the Travel Narrative but he says that there is ‘an alternation between teaching directed mainly to the disciples of Jesus and teaching meant for the crowds and for his opponents.’
page 140 note 84 Hamburg, 1964. See especially pp. 36–43 and also his article mentioned in note 82 above.
page 140 note 85 The actual 
language is not developed by Luke to the degree that Robinson implies but the idea of a journey is. D. Gill, op. cit., pp. 201f, points out that the dominant word to describe Jesus' and the disciples' journeys is 
. He shows that it ‘takes on the function of a terminus technicus for Jesus' progress toward Jerusalem’ (pp. 201).
page 140 note 86 This is the main point of Lk. 9: 57–62.
page 140 note 87 G. Kittel, TDNT, 1, p. 213, speaks of the custom of rabbinical students of ‘following behind at an appropriate distance’. See also Betz, H. D., Nachfolge und Nachahmung Jesu Christi im Neuen Testament, Berlin, 1967, p. 37.Google Scholar
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page 141 note 89 cf. Lk. 19:1–10.
page 141 note 90 op. cit., p. 82.
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page 142 note 92 S. Freyne, op. cit., pp. 151 ff.
page 142 note 93 R. P. Meye, op. cit., passim; S. Freyne, Ibid., pp. 106–50.
page 142 note 94 Luke adds the word ‘apostle'at least six times: 6: 15,9: 10,11:49,17: 5,22: 14, 24: 10. G. Klein, op. cit., p. 203 calls this use of apostle an ‘epochale Neuerung’ for in his estimation Luke is the first to call the twelve the apostles; but this distorts the facts for in Mark the twelve are already called apostles (6:30) as they are in Matthew 10: 2. Mark's use (6:7) has been taken simply as a participial rendering of ⋯ποστ⋯λλειν. So Taylor, V., The Gospel According to St. Mark, London, 1973, p. 318.Google Scholar He translates it ‘the missionaries’. This is rejected by Cranfield, C. E. B., The Gospel according to St. Mark, Cambridge, 1963, p. 214Google Scholar and R. P. Meye, op. cit., pp. 177ff.
page 142 note 95 Here it is interesting to note each Synoptic author's special terminology which is seen in comparing the parallels, Mk. 14: 17 = Matt. 26:20 = Lk. 22: 14 which read in order 
. See Turner, C. H., ‘Marcan Usage’, JTS, 26, 1925, p. 233.Google Scholar Recently the widely accepted view that Luke equates the apostles with the twelve has been challenged. See Ellis, E. E., The Gospel of Luke, (Revised edition), London, 1974, pp. 133f and Interp.Google Scholar, 28, 1974, pp. 94f where he reviews J. Jervell's Luke and the People of God. Ellis argues that Luke does not limit apostleship to the twelve. This may be true from Acts 12 onwards, but this is not so in the third gospel or in the early chapters of Acts.
page 143 note 96 op. cit., p. 84.
page 143 note 97 So Nellessen, E., Zeugnis für Jesus und das Wort, Exegelische Untersuchungenzum Lukanischen Zeugtiisbegriff, Stuttgart, 1976, pp. 107ff.Google Scholar
page 143 note 98 op. cit., p. 204.
page 143 note 99 op. cit., pp. 75ff.
page 143 note 100 op. cit., pp. 66ff.
page 144 note 101 B. D. 157 read 
: I.alread 
; AWΘ f13 sy' and Marcion read 
sy reads 
.
page 144 note 102 cf. Matt. 19:28. Both accounts of this saying reveal editorial alteration and most commentators agree that Luke has added ‘as my father appointed a kingdom for me so do I appoint for you that you may eat and drink at my table’ because of the awkward grammatical construction and the combination of two different images, the Messianic banquet and sitlingon thrones. So A. Schutz, op. cit., p. 120; S. Freyne, op. cit., p. 41; Tödt, H. E., The Son of Man in the Synoptic Tradition, London, 1965, p. 64Google Scholar; G. Lohfink, op. cit., pp. 81–2, et al. And most agree that Luke omits the words ‘twelve thrones’ from the tradition.
page 144 note 103 Contra J. Jervell, op. cit., p. 85 who finds the significance of the omission of the number twelve in the fact that the promise cannot be made to all twelve apostles at this point for Judas has been disclosed as a traitor. This text is basic to Jervell's argument that for Luke the twelve apostles are to be ‘regents in the eschatological Israel’. If, however, the promise is not to the twelve but to all disciples, as we believe it is, then Jervell's whole thesis is to be rejected. This view of the twelve apostles is found nowhere else in Luke-Acts.
page 145 note 104 Several forms are used viz. 
:2 Thes. 3:7–9; 
: I Cor. 4: 16, 11: 1; Eph. 5:1; I Thes. 1:6, 2: 14; 
: Phil. 3: 17.
page 145 note 105 A. Schulz, op. cit., p. 196, pp. 17f, pp. 201f; H. D. Betz, op. cit., pp. 5f, 137ff.
page 145 note 106 For Schulz, op. cit., p. 196, the nearest that these two ideas come together is in I Peter 2:21, Mk. 8: 34b and parallels, and Lk. 14:27. These texts, he argues, are written in the light of Golgotha but even here no real bridge between the two ideas is found.
page 146 note 107 Schweizer, E., Church Order in the New Testament, London, 1961, p. 21.Google Scholar Luke's contribution is best seen by comparison with Matthew's Gospel. In the first Gospel there is very marked ecclesiastical emphasis. The followers of Jesus form an 
(16: 18, 18: 17); Peter is given ‘the office of the keys’ (16: 18), as are the twelve (18:18). When Christians are assembled, Christ is mystically present (18:20). In the post-Easter period the command is to ‘make disciples … baptising them’ in the three-fold name (28:19).