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CHRIST |
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ELIJAH-ELISHA |
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Luke |
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1, 2 Kings |
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9:4; |
"Into whatsoever house ye enter |
17:9 |
Given hospitality by widow woman |
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10:7 |
there abide |
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2. |
9:6 |
Healing the sick |
17: 17-23 |
Widow's son healed. |
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3. |
9:8 |
"Some said that Elias had appeared." |
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4. |
9:9 |
"Herod . . . desired to see him" |
18:10 |
Sought by King Ahab. |
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5. |
9:16 |
Feeding the five thousand. |
17:14 |
Widow's food miraculously multiplied. |
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4:42-44 |
20 loaves feed 100 people |
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6. |
9:19 |
"Some say, Elias" |
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7. |
9:22 |
Rejected, raised the third day; 1Kgs. 19:2-8. Then, 40 days. |
19:2-8 |
After third day, went forty days to the presence of
God. |
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8. |
9:23 |
'Let him take up his cross daily, and follow me." |
18:21 |
"If the Lord be God, follow him" |
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9. |
9:28-35 |
Theophany in the mount of God |
19:11,12 |
Wind, earthquake, fire and - voice at Horeb. |
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10. |
9:30 |
Elijah at the Transfiguration. |
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11. |
9:37-42 |
Restored (dead) child when disciples failed. |
4:31 -35 |
Restored dead child when Gehazi failed. |
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12. |
9:46 |
Disciples eager for greatness |
5:22-26 |
Gehazi's ambition. |
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13. |
9:51 |
"The time was come that he should be received up." |
2:1 |
"When the Lord would take Elijah up to heaven." |
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14. |
9:54 |
"Fire from heaven, as Elias did?" |
1:10 |
"Let fire come down from heaven, and consume..." |
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15. |
9:55 |
What manner of spirit. |
2:9 |
A double portion of Elijah's spirit. |
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16. |
9:56 |
"Not to destroy, but to save." |
2:9 |
Elisha- "God saves." |
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17. |
9:58 |
"Nowhere to lay his head." |
19:5 |
Lay and slept under a juniper tree. |
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18. |
9:61 |
"Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them
farewell which are at home. " |
19:20 |
"Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow
thee." |
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. 9:62 |
"No man, having put his hand to the plough..." |
19:19,21 |
"Elisha plowing . . . boiled their flesh with the instruments
of the oxen." |
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20. |
10:4 |
"Salute no man by the way" |
4:29 |
"If thou meet any man, salute him not." |
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10:7 |
"Eating and drinking such things as they give." |
17:9ff |
Lodging with the widow. |
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22. |
10:13,14 |
. "If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and
Zidon." |
17:9 16:31 |
A widow of Zidon. Jezebel of Zidon. |
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23. |
10:19 |
"I give unto you power..." |
2:9 |
Elijah's power given to Elisha. |
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10:38 |
"Martha received him into her house" |
4:8ff |
Shunamite woman received Elisha "as often as he passed
by" |
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(and received her brother back to life) |
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(and received her son back to life). |
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26. |
12:24 |
"Consider the ravens...; God feedeth them." |
17:4 |
"I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there." |
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27. |
13:32 |
"Herod (Herodias!) will kill thee. . . Go ye, and tell that
vixen." |
19:2 |
Jezebel's threat, and Elijah's flight |
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A. |
Some of these items, if they stood alone, would be of doubtful
force, but together they make an impressive case. |
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This set of allusions suggests a different interpretation of
9:61,62 from what is usually advanced. |
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10:4 "Salute no man by the way" now implies: "Your errand is
to go and raise the dead". |
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12:24 "raven." Contrast Matthew's more general: "fowls of the
air" (6:26). |
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E. |
What is Luke trying to teach by such a catalogue as this?
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