... for Jewish Christians and prospective Jewish converts' (Cassidy, 1983, p.146). Luke is one of three synoptic gospels meaning that it shares a similar account of Jesus' journey and ministry with the gospels of St. Mark (considered the first gospel writer) and St. Matthew however, it's focus is on a slightly different message. There is an undeniably large proportion of Luke's gospel focused on Jesus' relationship to the minority groups in society such as sinners, tax collectors and the socially outcast. As well, there is a significantly greater number of stories in Luke that 'are concerned with women or with female motifs...as many as forty-two passages, with twenty three being specifically Lucan' ( Seim, 1994, p.3). This will be discussed in detail, in terms of hospitality for this particular gospel. There are two main ways that the theme of Hospitality is approached in Luke. One being the symbolic nature of meals ...

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