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Was Luke (the writer of Luke & Acts) Jewish or Gentile & where is the info found? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratch1.gif" alt="" />


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Was Luke (the writer of Luke & Acts) Jewish or Gentile & where is the info found? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratch1.gif" alt="" />
Luke in all likelihood was a Greek. The evidence for concluding he was Greek and not of Jewish origin is cumulative, as Hendriksen points out:

1) cf. Col. 4:14 cp. with vss. 10 and 11.
2) the Greek language of the Preface of Luke 1:1-4.
3) the voice of tradition.


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