A chiasm is a literary structure where vocabulary of the first section of a passage is repeated in reverse order in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage. In Luke 13:10-17 the center and climax is Jesus answering the synagogue official who criticized him healing on the Sabbath, “You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him?” (Luke 13:14-15).
The Chiasm of Luke 13:10-17
About the Author: Mike Rusten
Mike Rusten grew up in Plymouth, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. God drew him to himself at a Billy Graham crusade when Mike was a junior high boy, and life was never to be the same. He graduated from Princeton University where he was president of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship. Read More ...
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