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THE GOSPEL OF LUKE is a narrative 1 that tells the story of Jesus. Like other narratives, it has a plot with a recognizable beginning, middle, and end. 2 As with the other canonical Gospels, the plot of Luke revolves around conflict. At the human level, the primary conflict is between Jesus and Israel and especially between Jesus and the religious authorities. Within Luke's gospel-story itself, the resolution of Jesus' conflict with the authorities comes at the end, in the events surrounding the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. 3 The place where this conflict reaches its culmination, however, is in the episode of Jesus on the cross. In what follows, I should like to sketch the plot of Luke's gospel-story so as to suggest how and with what result Jesus' conflict with the authorities reaches its resolution in the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus and its culmination in the cross.Interpretation 369

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