256 LT.-COL. G. MACKINLAY, ON THE EMPHASIS OF ST. LUKE. 



His coming Death, sometimes associated with the mention of 

 His Eesurrection. 



I.uke (A) contains the striking record of three such prophecies 

 (No. 7) ; they were all uttered at about the time of the 

 Transfiguration, some six months before the Crucifixion, and 

 all at times of glory and success. The first was spoken at 

 Csesarea Philippi, when Peter confessed that Jesus was the 

 Christ ; our Lord then took the opportunity to tell His disciples 

 that " The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected 

 of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and 

 the third day be raised up." The next occasion was at the 

 Transfiguration itself, when the subject of discourse with Moses 

 and Elijali was the coming exodus of our Lord at Jerusalem. 

 And lastly, on tlie next day, when our Saviour had successfully 

 cured the demon-possessed boy after His disciples had failed to 

 do so. He again foretold the same grand event, by stating that 

 " The Son of Man shall be delivered up into the hands of 

 men." 



Luke (B) also contains three prophecies by our Lord (No. 9) 

 emphasizing His coming Death ; they are in more veiled terms 

 than tlie triplication to the same effect, which we have just 

 noticed in Luke (A), and they were uttered at different and less 

 striking times. The first, which Luke gives in this narrative, 

 was spoken by our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount, nearly 

 two years before the Crucifixion : " Even as Jonah became a 

 sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of Man be to this 

 generation." Matthew (xii, 40) adds the reason for this 

 similitude, but Luke does not do so. In the same Sermon Luke 

 records our Lord's words : " I have a baptism to be baptized 

 with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!" 

 Mark (x, 38, 39), assigning this utterance to a different time, 

 implies that it refers to our Lord's approaching Death (see 

 also Matthew xx, 22), but again Luke does not do so. Our 

 Evangelist records a third prophetic utterance in Luke (B) by our 

 Lord toward the end of His Ministry, wliich is also in veiled 

 terms : Behold, I cast out devils and perform cures to-day 

 and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected." These 

 words refer to Death, lor they furnished a reply to Herod's 

 threat to kill our Lord, 



Luke (C) also contains a triplication of prophecies (No. 11) 

 by our Lord of His coming Death. These were all spoken 

 near the end of the Ministry, and they are impressive because 

 they give plain details of the shortly impending event. Thus 

 the first component tells of suffering and rejection ; the second 



