This week, we will be looking at the birth of Christ from the opening 2 chapters of Luke’s gospel. In what serves as the prologue of the book, Luke tells his motivation for writing this gospel, so that his recipient, a man named Theophilus, can have “certainty” (Luke 1:4) about the things concerning Jesus. It is this idea of having certainty amidst uncertainty that shapes Luke’s account of Christ’s birth. In his well-researched version of the incarnation, Luke does something that is distinct among the gospel writers: he intentionally interweaves the narratives of the birth of Jesus and John the Baptizer.