patience, though not infinite, when it comes to human repentance. Leaving outcomes open also has the rhetorical effect of putting Luke’s audience in the role of deciding for themselves what they will do. The journey demonstrates always a spiraling narrative orderliness. Buried in the preceding passages is a question: Why must one choosing God’s Way forgo family loyalty, pride of land, and nation? The answer is peace for the outsider. To an expanded group of seventy disciples—a number probably representing