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The Followers of Jesus as the ‘Servant’: Luke’s Model from Isaiah for the Disciples in Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Luke models his portrayal of Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts after the human agent of the “New Exodus” in Isaiah 40–66, the servant. In the Isaianic New Exodus, the servant is integral to the restoration. The servant’s mission being embodied is, to a great extent, how the New Exodus comes to fruition. This work argues that Luke sees Jesus fulfilling the servant role in an ultimate sense,...

Nazareth synagogue. It is there that he declares the Spirit’s anointing (Lk. 4:18). Finally, Peter’s comment ‘in 1:16 echoes the language that Jesus used when he was last presented as Scripture interpreter: “It was necessary that the Scripture be fulfilled (ἔδει πληρωθῆναι τὴν γραφήν)”; cf. Luke 24:44, “It is necessary that all that is written be fulfilled (δεῖ πληρωθῆναι πάντα τὰ γεγραμμένα)” ’.23 Jesus gives the vocation of witness (μάρτυς) to the disciples in
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