Bearing in mind the sort of person to whom Luke addresses his book, one wonders whether at the outset his style and his content are not somewhat at odds. The first of the four incidents in this chapter (1:5–25) highlights a curious contrast between what he has to say and how he says it. The first group of verses just quoted is from AV, rather than RSV, for a purpose. Its seventeenth-century English conveys a little of the picturesqueness of these events. They have