Luke: Historian of Hope

 

 

 

Luke 2

Luke 23

Acts 18

 

 

But Luke was concerned primarily for the history of Israel as it related to the ministry of Jesus Christ. The infancy narratives (Luke 1-2) can hardly be understood apart from an appreciation of Israel’s plight and Luke’s concluding account in Acts 28 notes Paul’s broken-hearted citation of Isa 6:9-10. Between the infancy narratives and Paul’s bitter sermon in Rome Luke