The Transition Chapter

Luke Nine LUK 9
In Luke 9 we have the following:
(1) The rejection of Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah;
(2) The thorough change in everything which characterizes the remaining part of this gospel;
(3) The Lord showing the thorny path of those who would follow Him;
(4) A view of the end of the way, the glory of the kingdom and the Father's house;
(5) Leaving that glory, He gives His company to cheer, rebuke and comfort His people as needed;
(6) Finally, He exposes us to ourselves, Himself being God's standard to aim at and to follow.
In Luke 8 Christ preaches the gospel of the kingdom. In chapter 9 He sends forth His twelve disciples with the same testimony. In chapter 10, having been rejected as "the Christ" and on the ground of this rejection, He sends after the declaration of His coming glory as Son of man (seen in the transfiguration), the seventy on a wider mission, which the judgment day would vindicate if their message were refused.
There is a remarkable break in chapter 9. The testimony of the twelve and Christ's own testimony had reached far and wide, even to king's courts. But what was the result of it? The power of healing the sick and casting out devils which the Lord gave to His disciples were samples of the powers of the world to come, the millennial kingdom, but it was all of no avail.