The Crossings Community Church

And this is due to the fact that Matthew is writing to a Jewish audience. And what he's trying to do is he's talking to the Jewish audience and he wants more than anything for his Jewish brethren to understand that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah that they have been looking for, right? But Luke, on the other hand, is writing to a predominantly Gentile audience and was not concerned with convincing them that Jesus was the Messiah as much as he was concerned with getting them to understand that they too needed this Messiah and that they also were a part of this grand cosmic plan and why they were a part of it.