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Yes, Luke was not one of the 12 apostles. He was a companion of the apostle Paul and the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible.
Luke is credited with writing the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
The Acts of the Apostles. The Acts of the Apostles, abbreviation Acts, fifth book of the New Testament, a valuable history of the early Christian church. Acts was written in Greek, presumably by the Evangelist Luke, whose gospel concludes where Acts begins, namely, with Christ's Ascension into heaven.
If you are speaking of Luke who wrote the "Gospel according to Luke" the answer is no. Luke was a physician (Colossians 4:14).
It is in the New Testament.
The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were written by Luke in the King James Version of the Bible.
Luke is best known for the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, both of which are attributed to him.
Luke's gospel (Luke 1:3) and Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:1).
In the New Testament, Luke's Gospel and Acts of the Apostles comprise a two-volume set written by the same author and fairly close in time to each other. Since they were attributed to Luke the physician later in the second century, it has been accepted that both books were indeed written by Luke.However, the author is actually unknown, as the Gospel and Acts were originally anonymous. The prologue to Luke's Gospel indicates that the author did not know Paul, but that what he believed were those things that were handed down from others, in a line back to men who must have been eyewitnesses. This is one of a number of reasons that scholars no longer believe that Luke the physician wrote Acts of the Apostles.
A:The author of Acts of the Apostles, whose name is unknown to us but is traditionally assumed to be Luke, also wrote Luke's Gospel.
Of the 12 apostles, Luke was a physician. Answer Of the twelve apostles none are mentioned as being a doctor, but Luke the writer of one of the Gospels was a disciple and he was a physician (doctor).
He is believed to have been the author of the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.