Luke’s Gospel is written to a man named Theophilus, whose name means “lover of God”. His Gospel is part one of a two-part series. Part two is the book of Acts, which refers to the acts of the apostles after Pentecost––Christ’s ascension and the Spirit’s descension and indwelling. Unlike
the other authors, Luke was a Gentile. He was a physician who spent a tremendous amount of time with the apostle Paul, travelling with him on his missionary journeys. Luke’s Gospel account is often seen as more historical in its reporting, researching the culture and times in which Christ lived and tends to remember details that Matthew does not record. It seems that his profession and ethnicity assisted him in how he reported Jesus’ miracles. The Gospel of Matthew was likely written around the same time as Luke, about AD 60. Remember that the style of Luke’s Gospel is very different than the Gospels of Matthew and Mark––Matthew was centered around the Jews,
Mark focused on the Romans, and Luke was written to the Gentiles.

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