How should a woman today read the Gospel of Luke? How can her perspective shed new light on the text? Is her view similar to or different from her counterpart in New Testament times who listened to the same stories? And what about the women, mentioned in Luke, who "ministered to them"? This is a woman's view of possible ways of reading the Gospel of Luke. In Luke's text, scholars find world views reflecting the experience and importance of women in 1st-century Christian communities, since Luke, more than others, seems to have been influenced by women, and gives women importance in his Gospel. This chapter-by-chapter commentary looks at traditional historical, cultural and literary interpretations. It, however, breaks with tradition by asking questions - how can what is read be understood and how is the text fulfilled as it is listened to - from three points of view: that of a contemporary woman of today, that of a woman in the 1st century and that of the women mentioned in Luke's Gospel. Those in ministry, in adult religious education groups, scholars interested in new ways of reading the New Testament, and all who are interested in women's perspectives in New Testament time should find this book invites them to ask new questions that can be applied to personal, social or faith aspects of their lives.