John S. Thompson
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-plates-patterns-patriarchs/. For video and audio recording of this conference talk, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2022-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/videos/thompson/.
“The flow of Luke’s narrative suggests that it is a chronological retelling of the events in Christ’s life; however, differences in the ordering of some events compared to the other synoptic Gospels raises questions whether the sequence of time really was Luke’s governing criteria. Conzelmann and Fitzmeyer, among others, argue that Luke seems to be using geography as the criteria for the structure of his narrative, clustering the events of Jesus’s ministry to three main locations in a spatial sequence: those occurring in Galilee, those occurring while He journeys to Jerusalem, and those in Jerusalem. This framework drives the reader to view Jerusalem as the destination focal point and place where all is fulfilled.”
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