If St Luke wrote his Gospel and Acts of the Apostle around 2nd Century and if he is a contemporary of Christ then he must be 93 yrs old when he wrote both?

Answer 1

Scholars today, even including those of liberal persuasion, generally do not accept such a late date as the overwhelming evidence is for a much earlier date. The accurate historical information provided by Luke just does not fit into the second century.

Answer 2

A:Paul's epistles are believed to have been written during the 50s of the first century or perhaps a little earlier, but certainly during his lifetime. Acts of the Aposltes was written early in the second century, long after the death of Paul. So the epistles were first.

Answer 3

As there are no bylines for Luke or the sequel, Acts, we humans must deduce the authorship. Knowing he did not personally witness the Crucifixion yet we know he was with Paul at some of the events described in Acts (16:10-17, etc) and that he was the beloved physician of Colossians 4:14, many have ascribed these writings to Luke.

Some early Christian writings from the works of Justin Martyr to Tertullian, identify the author as Luke - firmly in place as such by the 3rd Century AD.

Though there are two main consensus as to the dating of Luke and Acts, the gist of which is between 60-80 AD, many point to the omission of Peter and Pauls deaths in the early/mid 60s as a strong indicator that these 2 works were written in that timeframe - with a possibility of the late 60s as well. But nowhere beyond that timeframe.

Answer 4

The evidence is that Luke wrote the Gospel shortly before he wrote Acts of the Apostles. It seems clear thatActsuses quite a lot of material from Jewish Antiquities, published by Flavius Josephus in 93 CE, so would likely have been written some years after 93 CE. Because the author of John's Gospel used material from the Gospel of Luke, this means that Luke's Gospel can not have been written much later than the beginning of the second century.
In summary, Luke appears to have written the Gospel before Acts, completing both some time between about 95 and 110 CE at the latest.

Answer 5

Saint Luke, to whom the third gospel is traditionally attributed, was a physician and companion of Paul the apostle.

However, the Gospel was originally anonymous and was only attributed to Luke later in the second century. It can be demonstrated that Luke's Gospel was based on Mark's Gospel, with further sayings material taken from the hypothetical 'Q' document also relied on by the author of Matthew's Gospel. This, and the fact that the Gospel was written in the nineties of the first century or early in the second century, militate against the author being Luke, the companion of Paul. Although scholars continue to refer to him as 'Luke' for convenience, we do not really know who this Luke was.

Answer 6

While scholars debate the exact dating of the Gospel of Luke and Acts, it is generally believed that Luke wrote his works in the 1st century, likely between 70-90 AD. It is not considered credible that Luke was 93 years old when he wrote, as this would place him beyond a typical human lifespan at that time.

Answer 7

Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke in approximately 60AD followed soon after by the Acts of the Apostles in approximately 62AD.