compassionate one, the righteous one, the friend of the poor and sinners, the one humbled and exalted—and to the disciples who are taught to go his way. What kind of ‘voice’, then, does Jesus have in Luke? With respect to Jesus’ stance in relation to his contemporary society (the ‘horizontal’ dimension), Luke presents Jesus speaking with prophetic concern for this world, the world in which Luke’s history is set, the material world of life and death. Characters from Luke’s larger story feature in