Luke 13 - Introduction

CHAPTER 13.

JUDGMENT TO COME.

This chapter continues the sombre judicial strain of Luke 12:54-59. Beginning with a general reference to the impending doom of Israel, as foreshadowed by a reported tragedy which had befallen certain individuals, it ends with a specific prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem similar to that which closes the great anti-Pharisaic discourse in Matthew 23. The dramatic effect of the prediction there is entirely lost in Lk.'s narrative, which in subsequent Chapter s continues its report of the teaching of Christ as if the end were still a great way off.