Gospel of Luke
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The Gospel of Luke is a New Testament account of the life, teachings, and death of Jesus Christ, written from the perspective of someone named Luke. It matters because it is one of the four canonical gospels and a foundational text in Christianity that has shaped Christian belief and practice for nearly 2,000 years.
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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. Perhaps most scholars think that he was a companion of Paul, but others cite differences with the Pauline epistles. Scholars largely agree Luke used the Gospel of Mark, and the two-source hypothesis also posits usage of Q, though alternative hypotheses positing a direct relation between Matthew and Luke without Q are increasing in prominence. 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.