that Israel’s prophets had demanded of Israel.8 The entire ministry of Jesus is appropriately captured in the phrase “divine hospitality to the stranger and sinner.”9 If Jesus’s mission is to enact the Lord’s hospitality as set forth in Isaiah, then it is no surprise that Luke portrays Jesus as an actual host who dispenses the Lord’s welcome by sharing meals with strangers, sinners, and outsiders. In fact, one of the primary ways in which Jesus enacts the
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