person
Luke
Λουκᾶς
Luke, a physician and companion of Paul, was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts.
- verses
- 5
- first named
- 2 Corinthians 13:13
- last named
- Philemon 1:24
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Luke?
Luke was a physician (Col.4.14) and a close companion of the apostle Paul (2Ti.4.11; Phm.1.24). He is best known as the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. Although not mentioned by name in these books, early church tradition unanimously attributes them to Luke. His writings suggest that he was well-educated and had a keen eye for historical detail. Luke accompanied Paul on several missionary journeys, as evidenced by the "we" passages in Acts (Act.16.10-17; 20.5-21.18; 27.1-28.16). He remained with Paul during his imprisonment in Rome (2Ti.4.11). In Paul's letters, Luke is described as a beloved friend and fellow worker in the gospel (Col.4.14; Phm.1.24). His medical background may have been helpful during Paul's travels and ministry. Luke's Gospel emphasizes the humanity of Jesus, His compassion for the marginalized, and the universal scope of His message. The Book of Acts records the growth of the early church and the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Associated with
Stands in the same events as
- Demas2 events
- Mark1 event
- Aristarchus1 event
- Epaphras1 event
- Philemon1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Luke is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
5 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Corinthians (2), Colossians (1), 2 Timothy (1) and Philemon (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 4 books.
2 Corinthians2 verses
Colossians1 verse
2 Timothy1 verse
Philemon1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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