most famous parables (10:30–37; 17:16). These hints of the extension of God’s grace to Gentiles in the gospel prepare the way, of course, for the inclusion of Gentiles in God’s people that Luke is so concerned to emphasize in the book of Acts. A fourth theme in Luke’s gospel is the concern of Jesus for the outcasts of society. Jesus is constantly seen interacting with those on the margins of Jewish society: the poor (e.g., 1:46–55; 4:18; 6:20–23; 7:22; 10:21–22; 14:13, 21–24; 16:19–31; 21:1–4), “sinners” (e.g.,