Luke moderates that sense of fear. We are to live here and now, not in anticipation of an immediate end. And the way we go about living in that coming day is really quite simple. Share your extra, don’t extort, live together, even with the Romans. Luke, of course, is writing roughly twenty years after Mark wrote his Gospel. Mark had seen the destruction of Jerusalem and thought that event signaled the immediate end. Luke is faced with the task of reshaping Mark’s expectation. Mark’s fear is no longer an appropriate response to the world.