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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,...

peace and social justice. I will argue throughout these next chapters that Luke is aware of this literary portrait, and his so-called minimization of the ‘vicarious’ aspect of the servant’s suffering shows how well he was reading Isaiah. Second, while it is true that the substitutionary trait is less prominent in Luke-Acts,8 Luke is clearly aware of this aspect (Acts 20:28; cf. Lk. 22:19b–20).9 Thus the other reason for Luke’s so-called shortchanging of this motif is his desire to apply the servant
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