CHRIST
ELIJAH-ELISHA
Luke 1, 2 Kings
1. 9:4; “Into whatsoever house ye enter 17:9 Given hospitality by widow woman
10:7 there abide
2. 9:6 Healing the sick 17: 17-23 Widow’s son healed.
3. 9:8 “Some said that Elias had appeared.”
4. 9:9 “Herod . . . desired to see him” 18:10 Sought by King Ahab.
5. 9:16 Feeding the five thousand. 17:14 Widow’s food miraculously multiplied.
4:42-44 20 loaves feed 100 people
6. 9:19 “Some say, Elias”
7. 9:22 Rejected, raised the third day;

1Kgs. 19:2-8. Then, 40 days.

 19:2-8 After third day, went forty days to the presence of God.
8. 9:23 ‘Let him take up his cross daily, and follow me.” 18:21 “If the Lord be God, follow him”
9. 9:28-35 Theophany in the mount of God 19:11,12 Wind, earthquake, fire and – voice at Horeb.
10. 9:30 Elijah at the Transfiguration.
11. 9:37-42 Restored (dead) child when disciples failed. 4:31 -35 Restored dead child when Gehazi failed.
12. 9:46 Disciples eager for greatness 5:22-26 Gehazi’s ambition.
13. 9:51 “The time was come that he should be received up.” 2:1 “When the Lord would take Elijah up to heaven.”
14. 9:54 “Fire from heaven, as Elias did?” 1:10 “Let fire come down from heaven, and consume…”
15. 9:55 What manner of spirit. 2:9 A double portion of Elijah’s spirit.
16. 9:56 “Not to destroy, but to save.” 2:9 Elisha- “God saves.”
17. 9:58 “Nowhere to lay his head.” 19:5 Lay and slept under a juniper tree.
18. 9:61 “Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell which are at home. “ 19:20 “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.”
19. . 9:62 “No man, having put his hand to the plough…” 19:19,21 “Elisha plowing . . . boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen.”
20. 10:4 “Salute no man by the way” 4:29 “If thou meet any man, salute him not.”
21. 10:7 “Eating and drinking such things as they give.” 17:9ff Lodging with the widow.
22. 10:13,14 . “If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Zidon.” 17:9

16:31

 A widow of Zidon.

Jezebel of Zidon.
23. 10:19 “I give unto you power…” 2:9 Elijah’s power given to Elisha.
24. 10:38 “Martha received him into her house” 4:8ff Shunamite woman received Elisha “as often as he passed by”
25. (and received her brother back to life) (and received her son back to life).
26. 12:24 “Consider the ravens…; God feedeth them.” 17:4 “I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.”
27. 13:32 “Herod (Herodias!) will kill thee. . . Go ye, and tell that vixen.” 19:2 Jezebel’s threat, and Elijah’s flight

Notes on the fore-going

A.
Some of these items, if they stood alone, would be of doubtful force, but together they make an impressive case.
B. This set of allusions suggests a different interpretation of 9:61,62 from what is usually advanced.
C. 10:4 “Salute no man by the way” now implies: “Your errand is to go and raise the dead”.
D. 12:24 “raven.” Contrast Matthew’s more general: “fowls of the air” (6:26).
E. What is Luke trying to teach by such a catalogue as this?