Kingdom Of God, Son Of Man And Jesus’ Self-Understanding -- By: Chrys C. Caragounis

Journal: Tyndale Bulletin
Volume: TYNBUL 40:1 (NA 1989)
Article: Kingdom Of God, Son Of Man And Jesus’ Self-Understanding
Author: Chrys C. Caragounis


Kingdom Of God, Son Of Man
And Jesus’ Self-Understanding1

Chrys C. Caragounis

Dedicated to my Friends at the Research Seminar at Lund

I. Introduction

The three topics of our title are perhaps the most debated problems of Gospel research. It will, of course, not be possible to deal with them completely in a single paper. Instead this article will re-examine some aspects of the ‘Kingdom of God’, especially in the light of certain evidence about the ‘Son of Man’, and the relation of the Kingdom to Jesus’ person and mission.2

My basic text will be two logia in the Beelzebul controversy as presented in Matthew 12:25–32. This text has parallels in Mark 3:23–30 and Luke 11:17–30 and 12:10, 3 though the actual logia (Mt 12:28 and 32) are found only in the Lucan version (11:20 and 12:10).4

II. The Question Of Priority

With respect to the pericope of the Beelzebul controversy as a whole Matthew and Mark have generally been considered as being dependent upon Q,5 though Matthew is thought to have conflated the Marcan account with the Q material in, for example, 12:29 and 31f.6 With regards to priority, the question is a double one: a) priority between Mark and Q and b) priority between Matthew and Luke. With respect to the first, though Mark has been favored more often than Q, it is not possible to speak of a consensus. Q has been advocated by, among others, A. Fridrichsen,7 H. E. Tödt,8 S. Schulz,9 E. Percy,10 A. J. B. Higgins,11 B. Lindars,12 and ...

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