who wrote luke in the bible

The Gospel of Luke is anonymous in the text itself, but from the earliest centuries Christians have traditionally said it was written by Luke the physician , a companion of the apostle Paul and the same person credited with writing Acts of the Apostles.

Quick scoop: who wrote Luke?

• Inside the Gospel, the author never gives his own name.

• Early church writers (like Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Origen) all say the author was Luke, a doctor and coworker of Paul, and manuscripts from around the year 200 label it “The Gospel according to Luke.”

• Modern scholars agree the same person wrote Luke and Acts, but they debate whether this was actually Luke the physician or another well‑educated early Christian writer.

So, in simple terms:

Christians traditionally answer: “Luke, Paul’s companion, wrote Luke.”
Scholars more cautiously answer: “Luke is anonymous; tradition attributes it to Luke the physician, but this can’t be proven.”

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