Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Theophilus (Greek: Θεόφιλος) is the name or honorary title of the person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed (Luke 1:3, Acts 1:1). It is thought that both works were written by the same author, and often argued that the two books were originally a single unified work. [1]
A growing but still uncommon belief [3] points to High Priest Theophilus as the person to whom the Gospel of Luke is addressed, but Theophilus is a common enough name that there are many other possibilities for the addressee of Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. [4]
Luke 3 is the third chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, traditionally attributed to Luke the Evangelist, a companion of Paul the Apostle on his missionary journeys. [1] It contains an account of the preaching of John the Baptist as well as a genealogy of Jesus.
Mark and Q account for about 64% of Luke; the remaining material, known as the L source, is of unknown origin and date. [28] Most Q and L-source material is grouped in two clusters, Luke 6:17–8:3 and 9:51–18:14, and L-source material forms the first two sections of the gospel (the preface and infancy and childhood narratives). [29]
Both the books of Luke and Acts are narratives written to a man named Theophilus. [1] The book of Acts starts out with: "The former treatise have I made", probably referring to the Gospel of Luke. [2] The view that they were written by the same person is virtually unanimous among scholars. [3]
James Tissot, Saint Luke, Brooklyn Museum. Epiphanius states that Luke was one of the Seventy Apostles (Panarion 51.11), and John Chrysostom indicates at one point that the "brother" that Paul mentions in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians 8:18 [24] is either Luke or Barnabas (Homily 18 on Second Corinthians on 2 Corinthians 8:18).
Interactive maps, databases and real-time graphics from The Huffington Post
Luke – a doctor who wrote what is now the book of Luke to Theophilus. Also known to have written the book of Acts (or Acts of the Apostles) and to have been a close friend of Paul of Tarsus; John – a disciple of Jesus and the youngest of his Twelve Apostles