The Story of Jesus - The Origin Story

Luke is trying to make the gospel message, the story of jesus, makes sense to a very broad audience. He's not talking to jewish people who already had a robust idea of this messiah that was very robust. So he's trying to tell it in broad strokes that would sound like the notions of heroism and a very im important back story. And so i think luke probably did talk to mary, and she told him about these events specifically. But for whom mark and john are writing too, is just not as big a deal. I think most jewish people would say, we're still keeping an eye out for that messiah. We don't think