Gospel of Luke
book of the New Testament
The Gospel of Luke is the third of the New Testament's canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volume work called Luke–Acts, accounting for 27.5% of the New Testament.
The Gospel of Luke shares the same author as the Acts of the Apostles. Tradition identifies the writer as Luke the Evangelist, a doctor who travelled with Paul the Apostle, though the text does not name its author.Most critical scholars maintain that the author was a traveling companion of Paul, though others cite differences with the Pauline epistles. Luke used the Gospel of Mark, and the two-source hypothesis also posits usage of Q, though a growing number of scholars contend Luke used Matthew instead. Most scholars now agree the Gospel of John knew and used Luke and the other Synoptics. Luke follows Mark closely compared to other ancient historians’ usage of sources, though the parallels and variations of the Synoptic gospels are typical of ancient historical biographies. The most common dating for its composition is around AD 80–90. The earliest witnesses for Luke are the Alexandrian and the revised western text-type.
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