Luke 8:19-36

3). Jesus is Revealed As The Messiah Who Has Come With Power (8:19-9:36).

In this third part of Section 3 Jesus is Revealed as the glorious Messiah Who has come with power but will be involved in suffering and death (Luke 8:19 to Luke 9:36). It may be analysed as follows:

a He no longer owns responsibility to His own family who do not believe in Him, and are on the outside (His own do not recognise Him) (Luke 8:19).

b He is revealed as the One Who is from above by quelling the storm, revealing His power and authority over nature (Luke 8:22).

c He delivers the demoniac of a legion of demons, revealing His power and authority over the spirit world, and His ability to deliver from legions (Luke 8:26).

d He raises the dead, revealing His power and authority over death (Luke 8:30).

c He sends out His power to preach and to heal through the twelve, giving them power and authority over all demons, coming under threat from Herod (Luke 9:1).

b He is revealed as the One Who is from above by providing a miraculous sacramental meal, revealing again His power over nature and His power to feed men's inner beings (Luke 9:11).

a He is confessed as Messiah by His followers, and revealed as such by being transfigured before, them revealing Who His true Father is, but at the same time He warns that He has come to suffer (Luke 9:18).

Note how in ‘a' His natural family do not acknowledge Him while in the parallel His spiritual family and His Father do. In ‘b' He reveals His power over nature so as to protect His own, in the parallel He reveals His power over nature so as to feed His own. In neither case is it for His own benefit. It is for theirs. In ‘c' He delivers the demoniac from the tyranny of evil spirits, and in the parallel His disciples go out to deliver people from the same tyranny. Central over all is that He is the Giver of Life, and Lord over Death.