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Who is Luke the gospel writer?



    
    

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Mini Shirley H Supporter Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!
I am quoting from the NKJV Bible:

"Neither Luke nor Acts has a byline, so we are left to deduce the author's identity. The author writes that he was not an eyewitness to the events surrounding Jesus but had gathered the reports of others. On the other hand, the author was present with Paul at some of the events described in Acts, events that belong to the 'we sections' of Acts (see Acts 16:10-17; 20:5-15; 21:1-18; 27:1-28:16). So the author must have been a lately converted Christian who knew Paul and sometimes traveled with him.

Early Christian writings, from the works of Justin Martyr to Tertullian, identify the author as Luke, an identification that was firmly in place by the third century A.D. Luke was an educated man by ancient standards. He was capable of writing in high Greek style, and Col. 4:10-14 seems to indicate that Luke was not 'of the circumcision,' that is, not Jewish. If so, Luke would be the only Gentile author of a New Testament book. Tradition says that after accompanying Paul on some of his missionary journeys, Luke settled in Philippi, investing his life in the ministry of the Philippian church."

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