

Harmonization in Action: The central section of Luke
The previous videos have addressed the question of whether Gospel harmonization is an appropriate historical tool. We've seen that Strauss's critical scholarly methods lead to implausible disharmonization. At this point I would like to illustrate the way that the use of reasonable historical conjecture applies to a difficult passage--the central section of Luke's Gospel. Luke 9:51 says that Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem, but in the chapters that follow he seems to take an inordinate amount of time to get there What's it all about? Here we'll look at a very fruitful conjecture--that Luke 9:51 corresponds to John 7:2-10, when Jesus travels to Jerusalem about six months before his death for the feast of Tabernacles. This conjecture leads us to note an undesigned coincidence. Why were the Samaritans so annoyed with Jesus in Luke 9:52-53, unwilling to allow him to stay overnight? See also the previous video on Luke 13 and Jesus' Perean ministry: https://youtu.be/aGC7vKMIBug