Parable of the Unjust Judge
The parable of the unjust judge (Luke 18:1-8 EU), and the parable of the widow pleading called, is one of the Parusiegleichnissen Jesus and is attributed to the Lukan special material.
Through the parable, Jesus made clear to his disciples the effectiveness of persistent prayers against injustice ( Lk 18:1 EU). In contrast to various other parables of Jesus, such as allowing the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, where Jesus has an interpretation and a broad exegetical margin, Jesus explains the parable of the unjust judge his words immediately following (Luke 18 0.6 to 8 EU).
Content
In a city an unscrupulous, neither God nor man prevailed fearing judges. When a vulnerable widow turned to him with a request to finally get her right, the judge ignored their concerns first. Given the persistently repeated representations to him becoming applicant, he decided, however, to take up the matter to finally have peace before him increasingly annoying expectant woman (Luke 18.2 to 5 EU).
With regard to the action packed unjust judge, Jesus refers his audience to the just God of his own conscious turning to. If this " day and night " are him incessantly in the ears, how should this can be a long time? Rather, he will soon give them legal ( Lk 18.6 to 8 EU).
Interpretation
Classification
Luke places the parable in the third section of the train of Jesus to Jerusalem (Luke 17, 11 to 19.27 ). It decides on a call transition on " The days of the Son of Man " (Luke 17.20 to 18.8 ), which deals with the coming of God's kingdom.
The parable concludes Luke immediately the parable of the Pharisee and the publican (Luke 18:9-14 EU), in which also the prayers are addressed.
In a special way the parable reminds us of the previous Lukan parallel from pleading friend (Luke 11.5 to 8 EU). Here, Luke puts the accent on the immediate fulfillment of the requested concern unless it is submitted with sufficient persistent importunity.
Core statement
It has sometimes been claimed, in the aisle of the parable of the increasing pattern draw a minori ad majus from: If even this unjust judge can be moved by the urge of a simple woman at some point to a change of mind, how much more will the righteous God for his chosen ones soon give ear when they call day and night for him. However, since the judge is designed as a counterpart to God, missed an allegorical interpretation of the core of the parable: to resist to cry out against injustice and to God, the case law reveals its commandments (Torah). So it is the widow who is moved to the listener at the center, which Sirach 35.14-19 EU is taken: the tears of the widow to covet against the cause injustice suffered. The parable is therefore not to be misunderstood as an allegory. The stubborn resistance in the light of the Torah twice experienced injustice, the widow appears as a woman who knows God's law on their side and this unruly behavior by their righteous expresses. In crying out against injustice, the widow is visible as a model for believers.
Special features of Luke
Praying
Luke emphasizes prayer as an expression of faith and the believer like no other biblical author. Prayer scenes frame the gospel in the beginning with the appearance of the angel during a temple liturgy ( Lk 1,10 EU) and in the end after the ascension of Jesus in praise of the disciples ( Lk 24,52 f EU). The beginning of the Gospel of Luke taken from the received as an integral part in the Church's liturgical prayer hymns Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55 EU), the Benedictus ( Lk 1.68 to 79 EU), the Gloria in excelsis ( Lk 2,14 EU) and Nunc dimittis the ( Lk 2:29-32 EU). Numerous reports both on prayer in the communities as well as through prayer Single handed his Acts.
The widows
The center of attention of Jesus Luke puts the religious and social outcasts of his time. These include the sinners and tax collectors, as it turns out, both the subsequent parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector as well as in the story of Zacchaeus. Women, especially widows, included in ancient times to the disenfranchised and excluded in a special way. In addition to the marginalized women in general widows are the special focus of the Lukan Jesus. He stressed the need of the widowed mother of the young man of Nain (Luke 7:11-17 EU), he raises the special value of the mite of the widow against the relatively small gifts to the rich produce. Finally, Luke engaged in the election of the seven deacons (Acts 6:1-6 EU) the social problems at the center, which are kindled in the face of the widow care in the Christian community.