In Luke He is “The
Son of Man.”
The humanity and kindness of Jesus are repeatedly
stressed in Luke’s gospel. Luke gives the most complete account of Christ’s
ancestry, birth, and development. The ancestry of the Son of Man is traced back
to the first man Adam.
Jesus is the ideal Son of Man Who identified with
the sorrow and plight of sinful man in order to carry our sorrows and offer us
the priceless gift of Salvation.
For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke 19:10 KJV
He is ‘the Perfect Man’ whose infancy story
intertwined with that of His forerunner—John the Baptist, as Luke records their
birth announcements, advents, and temple presentations. Jesus prepares within a
period of 30 years for a public ministry of only three and half years. His
ministry commences after His baptism and temptation.
Captured in the three parables of “The Lost Sheep,”
“Lost Coin,” and “Lost Son” is the crux of the Gospel According to Luke—that
the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.