Man living at the time of the New Testament

Luke

Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11; Philemon 1:24; Luke 1:1–4; Acts 16:10

The “beloved physician” who traveled with Paul (Colossians 4:14). He wrote the Gospel that bears his name, addressed to Theophilus, after “having traced the course of all things accurately from the first” (Luke 1:1–4), and the book of Acts; the “we” passages show that he was present with Paul at Troas, Philippi, and on the voyage to Rome (Acts 16:10–17; 20:5–21:18; 27–28). In Paul’s last letter he says, “Only Luke is with me” (2 Timothy 4:11).

The beloved physician (Colossians 4:14), Paul's traveling companion in the “we” passages of Acts, and author of Luke and Acts. Probably a Gentile. An early prologue to his Gospel says he never married and died in Boeotia, in Greece, at 84. Both ends of the bar are estimates.

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