Luke in the Bible

Meaning: luminous; white

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and so do my fellow-workers, Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke.

No one but Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is of great assistance to me,


As soon as he had this vision, we made efforts to get on to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to tell them the good news. So we sailed from Troas, and ran a straight course to Samothrace, and next day to Neapolis. From there we went to Philippi, a Roman garrison town, and the principal place in that part of Macedonia. In this town we stayed for some days. read more.
On the Sabbath we went outside the gates, to the bank of the river where we supposed there was a praying place, and we sat down and talked with the women who gathered there.

They went on to Troas and waited for us there, while we sailed from Philippi after the festival of Unleavened Bread, and joined them at Troas five days later. There we stayed a week.


Many writers have undertaken to compose accounts of the movement which has developed among us, just as the original eye-witnesses who became teachers of the message have handed it down to us. For that reason, Theophilus, and because I have investigated it all carefully from the beginning, I have determined to write a connected account of it for Your Excellency, read more.
so that you may be reliably informed about the things you have been taught.

In my first volume, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when through the holy Spirit he gave the apostles he had chosen their instructions, and was taken up to heaven.


When the parting was over and we had sailed, we made a straight run to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara. There we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, and we went on board and sailed on it. After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on our left, we sailed for Syria, and put in at Tyre, for the ship was to unload her cargo there. read more.
So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Instructed by the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem. But when our time was up, we left there and went on, and all of them with their wives and children escorted us out of the town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed; then we bade one another goodbye, and we went on board the ship, and they went home. After making the run from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and spent a day with them. The next day we left there and went on to Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip the missionary, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him. He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy. We spent a number of days there, and in the course of them a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' " When we heard this, we and the people there all begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus." So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!" After this we made our preparations and started for Jerusalem. Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and took us to the house of Mnason, a man from Cyprus, one of the early disciples, to spend the night. When we reached Jerusalem, the brothers there gave us a hearty welcome. On the next day we went with Paul to see James, and all the elders came in.


Our dear Luke, the doctor, and Demas wish to be remembered to you.


For that reason, Theophilus, and because I have investigated it all carefully from the beginning, I have determined to write a connected account of it for Your Excellency,

In my first volume, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning