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Exegetical Considerations

                                          Luke 4:14-21 and 4:22-30
                                      3rd and 4th Sunday after Epiphany

January 25, 2004 and February 1, 2004

1. What is the literary context of this text?
    a. How does that context provide an interpretive framework for this passage?

2. What are Luke’s sources for this text?
    a. How has he redacted those sources?

3. How does 4:14 recall 4:1?
    a. How does it recall 1:17,35; 3:21-22?

4. What is the tense of edidasken in v. 15 and its significance?

     a. How does 4:15 recall 2:20?
     b. What does this say about the reception of Jesus’ throughout Galilee?

5. What type of participle if tethrammenos in v. 16?

    a. How does v. 16 recall 2:51-52?

6. How do vv. 16b-20a form an intricate chiasm (beginning with aneste and ending with ekathisen)?

      a. What is at the center of this chiasm?
      b. Thus through this chiasm what is being highlighted?

7. In vv. 18-19
       a. What passages from Isaiah are being quoted?
       b. What is the thrust of these two quotes?
       c. How does the opening of the scriptural quotation recall 1:17,35; 3:32-22; 4:1,14?
       d. What is the significance of the threefold repetition of me?