Luke must provide a definitive statement about the restoration of Israel. On the one hand, some see a statement that the mission to the Jewish people as such has ended, either in failure or in sufficient success to be regarded as the completion of the restoration of Israel. On the other hand, others seek, in this and some other passages, a clear implication that, beyond the temporary hardening of the hearts of part of Israel, there lies an expectation of future large-scale conversion of the Jews.