Luke conceived his task as the writing of history and … we shall fail to do justice to his work if we do not think of him as a historian. Modern research has emphasized that he was a theologian.… His view of theology led him to write history.38 Therefore, since Luke has a theological interest, his narratives, though they are historical, are always more than simply descriptions or the record of brute facts. Clearly, in Luke-Acts, both by what he includes or excludes from his record and by his actual