Dinner Suest, Server and Host of the Kingdom's Banquet

Christological Features in Lk 14,1-24

Abstract

The experience of sharing the table does not only respond to the physiological need for nutrition, but is born of the relationality that characterizes the human being. It is an expression of the vocation of meeting, of joy and of celebration that nests in the depths of the person. For this reason it is not surprising that Scripture is filled with scenes in which the co-protagonists of the salvific history sit down together at table and celebrate the fundamental events that give them their identity. The image of the banquet reaches the height of its capacity to evoke fullness when it describes the eschatological salvation that God, the protagonist of history, offers his people (Is 25:6-8).
The author mentions in this passage the future hope of the resurrection. In this context, one would reasonably expect him to refer to the death and resurrection of Jesus, the foundation of faith in the resurrection future. However, their attention is conspicuously drawn to commensality, means of salvation and concrete expression of the divine visit.