A Critical Discussion and Evaluation of the Depiction of Jesus as Messiah in Luke-Acts

The Gospel of Luke, like those of Matthew and Mark, is a kind of Greco-Roman biography of Jesus. In Luke, this Gospel describes the life of Jesus from his birth to his resurrection and Acts depicts the spread of Christianity. It appears that the author of the Luke-Acts was a Greek speaking Christian outside of Palestine and in the second century, the book became attributed to Luke who was a travelling companion to the apostle Paul. The most probable reason for writing the Luke-Acts was to maintain a salvation history that would assist Christians. This brief essay presents a critical discussion about the depiction of Jesus as Messiah in the Luke-Acts.