12:13–21 The disciples also must learn not to be diverted from their commitment to Jesus by greed for wealth and material possessions, a theme that is important to the evangelist Luke. The transition to this topic, presented as the Parable of the Rich Fool (found only in Luke), is effected by someone in the crowd who wants Jesus to tell his brother to divide his inheritance. Jesus had no legal authority to arbitrate in such a matter (a matter often settled in the synagogue), as his answer in v. 14 indicates. More importantly, and what is probably the real point underlying Jesus’ answer, Jesus’ mission is too urgent and too important for a task that just as easily could be settled by a rabbi (Ellis, p. 178; Fitzmyer, pp. 968–69). But the concern with a fair and proper division of the inheri…