164 Hanna Stettler where they fail to do so (Mark 9,14-29 parr.), which has no parallel after Pentecost, shows that they do not share in his power without reservation. With respect to the future, Jesus promises that his disciples will bear witness to him in the power of the Holy Spirit (Mark 13,11 par. Matt 10,20 par. Luke 12,12). The Gospel of Luke contains further references to the Holy Spirit. Jesus is “full of the Holy Spirit” from the beginning of his ministry on (Luke 4,1.14), and introduces himself in the Synagogue at Nazareth by reading Is 61,1-2 [LXX]: pneu'ma kurivou ejp∆ ejmev ... The following verses describe the ministry this entails: “to proclaim good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to the captives and to recover sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour” (cf. Luke 4,18-19). Jesus claims that this word of Scripture is being fulfilled “today” (4,21). When John sends his disciples to ask whether Jesus is the one he announced (Luke 7,18-23 par. Matt 11,2-10), i.e., the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit (cf. Luke 3,16), Jesus has already carried out all that this prophecy implies (cf. especially Luke 7,21). This means that his entire ministry can be understood as baptism with the Holy Spirit. Jesus proclaims that those who ask God will receive the Spirit (Luke 11,13). At the end of his ministry, according to Luke, he promises the coming of the Spirit as “power from on high” (24,49). Within Luke-Acts this refers to the pouring out of the Spirit on Pentecost and its effects. At Pentecost the disciples receive a full share of the power of the Spirit, in which Jesus had worked on earth. According to Matthew, those who believed were to be baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matt 28,19). This indicates that at baptism the Gentiles who became disciples were given the eschatological gift of the Spirit (cf. Joel 3,1-2 and Ezek 36,27). 5. The Call to Unconditional Obedience Towards the Will of God Crucial to the restoration of God’s people according to Ezekiel 36 is, that the Spirit will lead them to obedience: “I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances” (v. 27). Jesus not only cleansed the people he gathered, but he also held them to unconditional obedience towards the will of God. In the Old Testament, sanctification always entailed observance of ritual Torah and ethical Torah. When we come to the Jesus tradition, we find a significant change in this respect.