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A number of different lines of evidence all point to Luke, the physician, as the author of Acts, as well as the Gospel of Luke. They were obviously written to the same person as well as by the same person.

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Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel According to St Luke were written in Greek by an anonymous author in the last decade of the first century, or early in the second. Although the author of these books did not identify himself, they were attributed to St Luke in the middle of the second century.

Whoever the author was, he could not have been an eyewitness to the life and times of Jesus, nor someone who even knew such an eyewitness. The respected New Testament scholar, Raymond E. Brown, says that around two thirds of the Gospel According to Saint Luke is derived from Mark's Gospel and the 'Q' document. The author, now known as Luke, knew little if anything else about the gospel tradition.

Some scholars believe that the discrepancies between Acts and the epistles of St Paul mean that he could never have read Paul's epistles and must have been relying on an oral tradition that had gradually diverged from Paul's own account. Other scholars believe that he may have known of the epistles but chose to rewrite parts of Paul's original account. There is evidence he may have copied some background material from Antiquities of the Jews and other works by the Jewish historian Josephus.

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Acts of the Apostles was written anonymously by the author of Luke's Gospel. Since the second century, this has traditionally been accepted as being Luke, the companion of Paul the Apostle. However, scholars say the many discrepancies between Acts and Paul's own epistles mean that Acts could not have been written by someone who knew Paul well. So, the author of Acts remains anonymous - we simply do not know who the author was. Answer Luke, the Physician, wrote the Acts of the Apostles.

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The Book of Acts is commonly attributed to Luke as a sequel to the Gospel of Luke. It reflects the history of the Apostles for the first 12 years after the Resurrection and then speaks primarily of Paul's works. AnswerActs of the Apostles and the Gospel According to St Luke were written in Greek by an anonymous author in the last decade of the first century, or early in the second. Although the author of these books did not identify himself, they were attributed to St Luke in the middle of the second century. Whoever the author was, he could not have been an eyewitness to the life and times of Jesus, nor someone who even knew such an eyewitness. The respected New Testament scholar, Raymond E. Brown, says that around two thirds of the Gospel According to Saint Luke is derived from Mark's Gospel and the 'Q' document. The author, now known as Luke, knew little if anything else about the gospel tradition. Some scholars believe that the discrepancies between Acts and the epistles of St Paul mean that he could never have read Paul's epistles and must have been relying on an oral tradition that had gradually diverged from Paul's own account. Other scholars believe that he may have known of the epistles but chose to rewrite parts of Paul's original account. There is evidence he may have copied some background material from Antiquities of the Jews and other works by the Jewish historian Josephus.

The author is traditionally identifed as Luke the Evangelist

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A number of different lines of evidence all point to Luke, the physician, as the author of Acts, as well as the Gospel of Luke. They were obviously written to the same person as well as by the same person.

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Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel According to St Luke were written in Greek by an anonymous author in the last decade of the first century, or early in the second. Although the author of these books did not identify himself, they were attributed to St Luke in the middle of the second century.

Whoever the author was, he could not have been an eyewitness to the life and times of Jesus, nor someone who even knew such an eyewitness. The respected New Testament scholar, Raymond E. Brown, says that around two thirds of the Gospel According to Saint Luke is derived from Mark's Gospel and the 'Q' document. The author, now known as Luke, knew little if anything else about the gospel tradition.

Some scholars believe that the discrepancies between Acts and the epistles of St Paul mean that he could never have read Paul's epistles and must have been relying on an oral tradition that had gradually diverged from Paul's own account. Other scholars believe that he may have known of the epistles but chose to rewrite parts of Paul's original account. There is evidence he may have copied some background material from Antiquities of the Jews and other works by the Jewish historian Josephus.

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Acts of the Apostles was written anonymously by the author of Luke's Gospel. Since the second century, this has traditionally been accepted as being Luke, the companion of Paul the Apostle. However, scholars say the many discrepancies between Acts and Paul's own epistles mean that Acts could not have been written by someone who knew Paul well. So, the author of Acts remains anonymous - we simply do not know who the author was. Answer Luke, the Physician, wrote the Acts of the Apostles.

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The Book of Acts is commonly attributed to Luke as a sequel to the Gospel of Luke. It reflects the history of the Apostles for the first 12 years after the Resurrection and then speaks primarily of Paul's works. AnswerActs of the Apostles and the Gospel According to St Luke were written in Greek by an anonymous author in the last decade of the first century, or early in the second. Although the author of these books did not identify himself, they were attributed to St Luke in the middle of the second century. Whoever the author was, he could not have been an eyewitness to the life and times of Jesus, nor someone who even knew such an eyewitness. The respected New Testament scholar, Raymond E. Brown, says that around two thirds of the Gospel According to Saint Luke is derived from Mark's Gospel and the 'Q' document. The author, now known as Luke, knew little if anything else about the gospel tradition. Some scholars believe that the discrepancies between Acts and the epistles of St Paul mean that he could never have read Paul's epistles and must have been relying on an oral tradition that had gradually diverged from Paul's own account. Other scholars believe that he may have known of the epistles but chose to rewrite parts of Paul's original account. There is evidence he may have copied some background material from Antiquities of the Jews and other works by the Jewish historian Josephus.

The author is traditionally identifed as Luke the Evangelist

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Acts of the Apostles was written by the same author as Luke's Gospel. Both were anonymous until late in the second century, when the Church Fathers attempted to assign authorship to each of the gospel accounts. They felt that Luke and Acts must have been written by a well educated acquaintance of St Paul, and that Luke the physician best fitted that description. However, there is no real evidence that Luke the physician was the real author.

Acts is considered to have been written late in the 90s or more probably early in the second century CE, because of its apparent reliance on Josephus' history, Antiquities of the Jews. The fact that the gospel attributed to Luke was so clearly based on Mark's Gospel and the 'Q' source, means that the author did not rely on oral testimony from Paul or any other early Christian. Thus, it will ever remain a mystery who wrote Acts of the Apostles.

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