Good points on the parallels.
Remembering that Luke was a physician, makes me wonder if he saw more poor people and hungry or thirsty people???? Possibly.
A couple months ago I read the book “Call of the Midwife”. I don’t have a working TV so I hadn’t watched the series at all.
The authors descriptions of the poor living in the tenements of London were vivid and in many cases, almost heartbreaking.
Thanks Salvation. Might I add that the Gospels that are sometimes characterized as written to the Jews, the Greeks, the Romans and the Christians, are actually all written to each of us. Within each of us is a concern for the consistency of all of revelation, Old Testament as well as New Testament (Hebrew Mind); each of us is concerned with the scientific evidence and with the real world (Greek Mind); each of us is concerned with the bottom line, so what does it boil down to (Roman Mind); and, each of us is concerned with God’s Love and Mercy (Christian Mind).