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A:All the New Testament gospels were written anonymously, so we do not really know who wrote any of them. It was only in the second century that Papias and other of the Church Fathers decided to attribute the gospels to those they felt most likely to have written them. They decided to attribute the second gospel to Mark, a disciple of Paul, and the third gospel to Luke, the physician and companion of Paul. However, modern scholars say there is no good reason to accept these attributions as fact. It is most probable that none of Paul's acquaintances even knew any of the New Testament gospels.
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Is the disciple Paul and the gospel writer Paul the same?

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According to the Gospel of Luke what was he doing when Jesus called him to be a disciple?

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