This study examines how the Gospel of Luke portrays Jesus most clearly as saviour. It is in this Gospel that Jesus is found as sensitive and compassionate. There is great gentleness, but there is nothing soft or easy-going about this Jesus. On the other hand, he does reflect the God who is, disconcertingly, the God of sinners. The Lucan Jesus, who truly knows the Father, is wholly in the business of lifting the burden of sin - not of adding to it.