fill a library), and told with an eye, as we shall see, to particular concerns and interests. But Luke wants us to read it, all the way through, as a book about Jesus, a book indeed with Jesus as the principal actor, rather like some of the plays by another great playwright of recent years, Samuel Becket, where the action on stage sometimes crucially depends on a person whom the audience never actually sees. If this is so, one of the results is that there is a third level as well on which Luke wants