IMITATIO CHRISTI' AND THE LUCAN PASSION NARRATIVE

Imitatio Christi' and the Lucan Passion narrative

Since Martin Dibelius interpreters have often seen Luke's Passion

narrative as an attempt to portray Jesus' death as a martyrdom, or at

least to interweave the theme of martyrdom with other emphases.1 His

words have been often quoted: * For Luke the suffering Saviour is the

Man of God who is attacked by evil powers and who, with his patience

and forgiveness, is a model of innocent suffering... a saintly man closely

united with God'.2 On the other hand this view has not been widely

taken up by writers of English commentaries.3 The purpose of this

article is to assess the principal evidence presented by Dibelius and his

followers, and draw attention to what may be a largely neglected element

in the background of Luke's thought.

Three general considerations may predispose us to look for martyrological

motifs in Luke's Passion narrative.

(i) There are the parallels that may be traced between his portrayal

of Jesus in the Gospel and both Stephen and Paul in Acts, both of whom

are depicted as bearing witness through suffering and death, although

in Paul's case the death is prospective only. These parallels are familiar

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