Interest in Social Outcasts. More than any other gospel Luke portrays the Lord's deep concern for the socially ostracized. Portrayal of Women. Luke mentions thirteen women not mentioned elsewhere in the gospels, including two who formed the subject of parables. Of particular interest is the inclusion of the story of the widow of Nain, the immoral woman, the women who supported Jesus with their gifts and those who lamented over him on his way to the cross.
Women figure prominently in both the birth and resurrection narratives.
Interest in Children. Luke alone refers to the childhood of John the Baptist and Jesus. Many of Luke's special parables relate to matters of money, for example, the two debtors, the rich fool, the tower builder, the lost coin, the unjust steward, the rich man and Lazarus, and the two talents. Luke records nine prayers of Jesus, of which all but two are contained in no other gospel. That is to say, Theophilus the Gentile neither saw nor heard Jesus while he was ministering in Israel, nor had Theophilus visited that area after the resurrection.