"... Luke does theology by creating a narrative with striking images and tableaus, invariably with first testament motifs. Surely, a high point in the gospel narrative is Jesus' ascension. As Jesus ascends, Luke depicts him giving Aaron's blessing as the high priest would after sacrifice on the Feast of Atonement. The sacrificial and expiatory interpretation of the cup connects with the Lucan running allusion to Sirach 50, where the glory and function of the high priest in the liturgy of the Day of Atonement are magnified. From Luke 9:31 through 24:53 one finds applied to Jesus words which in Sirach 50 refer to the officiating high priest and to the worshiping assembly. In Luke 22:14-23 and 24:50-53 Jesus is thus depicted functioning as a priest. The bread as memorial and the cup as the token of the covenant in Jesus' blood lay the narrative base for depicting the ascending Jesus completing the liturgy of the Day of Atonement. Jesus' giving the cup as new covenant in his blood and imparting Aaron's blessing bring narratively to full view Luke's image of Jesus' relation to the temple. With this image the Third Evangelist explores the meaning and significance of Jesus' relation to God and to people. The result may help us integrate the conflict in Luke with that in Acts. Jesus is the cornerstone which the chief priests, as the builders, rejected (Acts 4:11). Luke portrays Jesus subsuming in himself the worship associated with the temple ..."