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Luke the Evangelist — the beloved physician
A physician and companion of Paul, traditionally a Gentile. He is credited with the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles — the very account of Paul's journeys — and the 'we' passages of Acts mark where he travelled with him, including the voyage to Rome.
What we know — and how we know it
Ancient writers — non-biblical testimony · 2
Scholarly — supported scholarly belief · 1
Travels
ScholarlyThe 'we' passages in Acts, where the narrative slips into the first-person plural, are widely read as marking the stretches Luke himself travelled with Paul.
Life, role & deeds
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Ancient writersIrenaeus, about AD 180, states that 'Luke, the companion of Paul, set down in a book the gospel that Paul preached'.
Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses 3.1.1 (c. AD 180), extant in the Latin version and in a Greek fragment preserved by Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 5.8.3; ed. A. Rousseau & L. Doutreleau, Sources Chrétiennes 211 (1974).
Ancient writersThe Muratorian Canon, about AD 170 and our oldest list of New-Testament books, names 'Luke the physician' as author of the third Gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles.
Muratorian Fragment (Canon Muratori), lines 2–8 and 34–39; preserved in an 8th-c. codex in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Cod. J 101 sup.), first published by L. A. Muratori, Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi III (1740); critical ed. H. Lietzmann, Das Muratorische Fragment (Kleine Texte 1, 1902).
Where in scripture
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- Paul the Apostle — Associate of this person
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