Jesus means one thing if the purpose of Luke’s narrative is to present an apology to the Roman authorities on behalf of the burgeoning Christian movement—namely, it means that Jesus’ resurrection is a specimen of the hope for resurrection shared by the Jews (particularly Pharisaic Jews), who are a protected religious group within the Roman empire. Hence, Jesus’ resurrection would do little more than provide Christians with a theological basis for political ‘cover.’45 It means quite another thing