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Mar 22, 2024 · St. Luke (flourished 1st century ce; feast day October 18) was, in Christian tradition, the author of the Gospel According to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, a companion of St. Paul the Apostle, and the most literary of the New Testament writers. Information about his life is scanty. Tradition based on references in the Pauline Letters has ...
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Luke the Evangelist [a] is one of the Four Evangelists —the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Prominent figures in early Christianity such as Jerome and Eusebius later reaffirmed his authorship, although a ...
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Mar 29, 2019 · Learn about the life, writing, and authority of Luke, the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. Find out what the Bible says about him, how he was a companion of Paul, a physician, and a Gentile. Discover his role as one of the four Evangelists and a historian of the early church.
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Jun 25, 2019 · The first to identify the Luke in Paul’s letters with the author of the Gospel according to Luke and Acts was Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons in the late 2nd century. Luke was not, then, an eyewitness of the gospel events. He edited traditional material of which he came into possession. Luke could, however, have witnessed some events in Acts.
3 days ago · Learn about the life, patronage and feast day of St. Luke, the physician and companion of St. Paul who wrote a large part of the New Testament and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Find out how he was a patron of artists, doctors, and other tradesmen, and how he may have been a direct disciple of Jesus before his ascension.
In fact, after being abandoned by all, in the final phase of his imprisonment, Paul writes to Timothy, “only Luke is with me” (2 Tim 4,11). The Evangelist of Mercy. From the parables and miracles that are unique to St Luke, we can determine the most characteristic feature of his Gospel.
Mar 7, 2017 · The Life of Saint Luke. While Luke indicates in the opening verses of his gospel that he did not know Christ personally (he refers to the events recorded in his gospel as having been delivered to him by those "who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word"), a tradition claims that Luke was one of the 72 (or 70) disciples ...