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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