Gospel of Luke

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The Gospel of Luke is a book in the New Testament that is the third of the 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. The author is presented as a participant in the events narrated in the first-person we passages of Acts. Most critical scholars maintain that the author was a traveling companion of Paul, though some 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...

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