Luke the Evangelist
Also known as Saint Luke, Luke, Lukas, Lucanus
one of the four evangelists
AI overview
Luke the Evangelist is one of the four evangelists, traditionally credited with writing the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament. He is venerated in Christian tradition as an important early witness to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Writings of St. Luke
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,587x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,411x
- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,238x
- PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 8,498x
via Crossref · CC0
Article
Luke the Evangelist was 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 lack of conclusive evidence as to the identity of the author of the works has led to discussion in scholarly circles, both secular and religious.
The New Testament mentions Luke briefly a few times, and the Epistle to the Colossians refers to him as a physician (from Greek for 'one who heals'); thus he is thought to have been both a physician and a disciple of Paul.