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At the heart of Luke’s Gospel is the truth that God sent his Son to seek and to save what was lost. More than any of the other Gospel writers, Luke shows us the Lord dealing with individual people and how their lives were changed as a result of their personal encounter with him. These people came from all ranks of society: the rugged fisherman, the poor widow, the wealthy tax collector, the ruler...

other Gentile. What we do know about him is that he neither feared God nor cared about men (18:2). What a person to have in such an important position! However, he was there and he had all the authority of mighty Rome behind him. So why did he take no interest in this widow? It was because she was poor, and therefore she did not have sufficient money to pay for a court hearing. Once again we see Luke selecting a story concerning the underprivileged—a poor widow. And, in doing so, he was saying, ‘God
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