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People of the Bible

Luke

also called Lucas

In the story

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The numbers are the lines below.

  • 1 Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD
  • 2 Call to Macedonia · 47 AD
  • 3 Lydia's Conversion · 47 AD
  • 4 Paul casts demon out of soothsayer · 47 AD
  • 5 Third Missionary Journey · 50 AD
  • 6 Mission to Macedonia and Greece · 54 AD
  • 7 Eutychus revived · 54 AD
  • 8 Voyage to Miletus · 54 AD
  • 9 Paul speaks to Ephesian Elders · 54 AD
  • 10 Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem · 54 AD
  • 11 Paul visits elders in Jerusalem · 54 AD
  • 12 Journey to Rome begins · 56 AD
  • 13 Paul's Journey to Rome · 56 AD
  • 14 Paul is shipwrecked by a storm · 57 AD
  • 15 Paul stays at Malta · 57 AD
  • 16 Paul arrives at Rome · 57 AD
  • 17 Paul's First Roman imprisonment · 57 AD

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The evangelist, was a Gentile. The date and circumstances of his conversion are unknown. According to his own statement (Luke 1:2), he was not an “eye-witness and minister of the word from the beginning.” It is probable that he was a physician in Troas, and was there converted by Paul, to whom he attached himself. He accompanied him to Philippi, but did not there share his imprisonment, nor did he accompany him further after his release in his missionary journey at this time (Acts 17:1). On Paul’s third visit to Philippi (20:5, 6) we again meet with Luke, who probably had spent all the intervening time in that city, a period of seven or eight years. From this time Luke was Paul’s constant companion during his journey to Jerusalem (20:6-21:18). He again disappears from view during Paul’s imprisonment at Jerusalem and Caesarea, and only reappears when Paul sets out for Rome (27:1), whither he accompanies him (28:2, 12-16), and where he remains with him till the close of his first imprisonment (Philemon 1:24; Col. 4:14). The last notice of the “beloved physician” is in 2 Tim. 4:11.

There are many passages in Paul’s epistles, as well as in the writings of Luke, which show the extent and accuracy of his medical knowledge.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

Colossians
4:14
2 Timothy
4:11
Philemon
1:24

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.