Luke’s genealogy traces Jesus’ lineage all the way back to Adam, linking Jesus to the first man (Matthew’s genealogy, by contrast, stops at Abraham). And Luke’s favorite title for Jesus, tellingly, is “Son of Man,” a term used three times more by Luke than by John, who, as we’ll see in a minute, puts his emphasis on Jesus’ divinity. For the Roman audience, and even more specifically, for the persecuted Roman Christians who would hold the key to the future of that church, God inspired a man named