10:39; 13:31). History is salvation history, for God has brought his salvation through Jesus the Son of God into this world, and God’s salvation has been acted out in the life and death of his Son. Jesus has fulfilled prophecy and in this way has summed up the message and purpose of the Old Testament in himself. Luke in this sense builds on Paul and presents the good news, the gospel of the grace of God extended to sinful humanity in the life and death of Jesus as a salvific act, a working out of
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