The plot moves inward toward Jerusalem in Luke, but outward from Jerusalem in the book of Acts (Keener 1993, 186). Contrast the purposes of Matthew and Luke. Matthew was a Jew who wrote to the Jews, but Luke was a Greek who wrote to the Greeks. He had at least two related purposes for writing us a history of the Lord’s ministry. First, Luke emphasized that Jesus came “to seek and save what was lost” (Luke 19:10). Matthew’s purpose, on the other hand, was to prove Jesus was the Jewish Messiah