Section 7
up of the church. Rather, Luke's view is that of the jubilee. Therefore, Luke's intention is to show us that for the jubilee there is the need of the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed One. This is the reason Luke emphasizes that Jesus is the Christ and does not include the details. We need to be impressed with the fact that Luke's pur pose is to point out that for the application of the jubilee, we need Christ, the anointed One of God.
THE NEED FOR DEATH
AND RESURRECTION
Immediately after the Lord was recognized as the Christ, He spoke to His disciples concerning His death and resurrection. In verse 22 He said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised."
For years I did not understand the meaning of the sequence in chapter nine. Why after the feeding of the five thousand did the Lord ques tion the disciples concerning Himself? Then why, immediately after they recognized Him as the Christ, did He tell them that He was about to be crucified and resurrected? The answer to these