Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke takes us from the birth and ministry of Jesus to His death and resurrection and finally the ascension of Jesus.

The author seems to couple this gospel account together with the Acts of the Apostles to make up this two-volume work called Luke–Acts.

Together they account for almost a quarter of the New Testament giving us a picture of the history of first-century Church and Christianity from the ministry of John the Baptist to the end of Acts where "some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not." ‭Some "departed" as the "Holy Ghost" can only be heard and understood, seen and perceived by those people whose hearts have not been "waxed gross", 'ears dulled' and 'eyes closed' that they should 'be converted and healed' both Gentiles and Jews. Acts 28:24-30.

No Gospel stood alone but were read heard and scene by the living witnesses of repentant Christian people who turned away from the covetous practice and idolatry so common in the temples of Paganism.

Luke very much follows Mark with some additions and nuance as it followed His ministry, sermons, suffering, death, and resurrection.

While it is clearly dependent upon what is called the Q gospels with some unique information.

Like other authors the original text was anonymous but eventually attributed to Luke who was a companion of Paul despite what some hold up as contradictions assumed to be observed in his Epistles and in Luke's account of Acts.

The apparent contradictions have been attributed to many factors like the length of time they spent together, the time between the events and their recording of them and some revision that may have taken place.

Another factor may be the result of the influence of an apostate form of Christiany that brought in Damnable heresies skewing both gospels and epistles with the false or incomplete doctrines of men.