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Scholars recognize the unity of the works of Luke and Acts apart from the claims made in the prologues of both to be addressed to the same person as well as to their following each other chronologically in time:

Luke 1:1-4 (King James Version) 1Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

2Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

3It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

4That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. Acts 1:1-4 (King James Version) 1The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

2Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

4And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

Further to this, Acts has a number of 'we' passages which indicate that Luke was a travelling companion of Paul on a number of his missionary journeys. Paul is thought to have been martryed in AD 68 at the latest, or maybe even AD 64 and so, scholars conclude that, since Luke does not mention the death of Paul, he therefore had not yet died when Luke finished Acts. This is further substantiated by the details which Luke does include such as the deaths of both Stephen and James the apostle.

It is thus commonly considered likely that Luke wrote a good portion of Acts in AD 62 when Paul was at Caesarea prior to his being taken to Rome. There was both the time and the opportunity for this to have happened at this time.

The accuracy of Luke as a historian may also relate to his being a contemporary of the events he describes, so he was thus able to write from first-hand experience. Many of the details of Acts which were previously thought to be in error,have been confirmed by archaeological discoveries. This task obviously being made significantly more difficult if Luke were writing at a much later time.

There is no evidence whatsoever that Luke existed at a much later time. The seeming similarities between the writing of Josephus, (who did write towards the end of the first century AD) and Luke can be explained by Josephus either using Luke as a source for his information, or by him having an independent source.

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