The Gospel of Luke

Abstract

In “setting his face”, Luke is highlighting the nature of Jesus ministry as the fulfillment of the absolute commitment to the enduring obedience of Isaiah’s Suffering Servant who “set his face like flint” with absolute obedience and trust of the Father’s sovereign plan, secure in the knowledge that he would “never be put to shame”. (Isa. 50:7) Jesus is now singularly focused on his vocation to suffer and die as the Savior of the World. While Luke is telling the story of Jesus dedication to his call, he makes the application of the call of the disciple to the singularly-focused, costly vocation of servant ministry for the Kingdom.

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