tells is simple, profound and poignant. They had regarded Jesus as a prophet, and more than a prophet. God’s power had been present with him in his miracles and his teaching, and they couldn’t doubt that this was the man of God’s choice. He was the one who would redeem Israel. Clearly, for them, this referred (as Luke has been saying all along) to the new Exodus: just as Israel had been ‘redeemed’ from slavery in Egypt at the first Passover, so they had hoped that now Israel would be ‘redeemed’,