"Luke" and "Matthew" (names made up by later editors) were telling stories to different audiences. With the focus on Jewish rites, customs and personalities it would appear that whoever wrote "Matthew" was writing for a Palestinian audience, whereas the author of "Luke", with his focus on Roman personalities was writing for a Greco-Roman audience that didn't give a shit about Jewish rituals.
Neither author had any idea that their novels would later be scooped up by pious assholes and combined into a single "book" which only shows the contradictions between them all the more clearly. Any time now one of our resident xtian nuts will drop by and sprain his scrotum trying to "explain" how the obvious contradiction is not a contradiction at all. It's always good for a laugh when they do that.
Neither author had any idea that their novels would later be scooped up by pious assholes and combined into a single "book" which only shows the contradictions between them all the more clearly. Any time now one of our resident xtian nuts will drop by and sprain his scrotum trying to "explain" how the obvious contradiction is not a contradiction at all. It's always good for a laugh when they do that.
