Jesus as Messiah in the gospel of Luke: Discerning a pattern of correction

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Byrne, Brendan | Copyright information

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THE QUESTION of whether and in what sense Jesus was the awaited Davidic Messiah has clearly troubled all four NT evangelists. Each of them states, in his own way, that Jesus is the Messiah and then seems to add a clear qualification: "Jesus is the Christ, but . . ." (Matt 16:16, 21-23; Mark 8:29-33; Luke 9:20-22; John 20:31; cf 12:4).

Of course, any discussion of Jesus as Messiah in the Christian gospels inev...

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