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Luke Scripture - Colossians 4:14

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you....

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Luke the Evangelist in Wikipedia

Luke the Evangelist (Ancient Greek: Λουκᾶς, Loukas) was an Early Christian writer who the Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. The Roman Catholic Church venerates him as Saint Luke, patron saint of physicians, surgeons, students, butchers, and artists; his feast day ...

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Luke Scripture - 2 Timothy 4:11

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry....

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Luke in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

look, luk. 1. Name: The name Luke (Loukas) is apparently an abbreviation for Loukanos. Old Latin manuscripts frequently have the words CATA LUCANUM as the title of the Third Gospel. (But the form Loukios, is also found in inscriptions synonymous with Loukas; compare Ramsay, The Expositor, December, 1912.) It was a common fashion in the koine to...

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Luke in Naves Topical Bible

-(A disciple) -A physician Col 4:14 -Wrote to Theophilus Lu 1:1-4; Ac 1:1,2 -Accompanies Paul in his tour of Asia and Macedonia Ac 16:10-13; 20:5,6 -To Jerusalem Ac 21:1-18 -To Rome Ac 27; 28; 2Ti 4:11; Phm 1:24...

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Luke in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(light-giving), or Lu'cas, is an abbreviated form of Lucanus. It is not to be confounded with Lucius, Ac 13:1; Ro 16:21 which belongs to a different person. The name Luke occurs three times in the New Testament-- Col 4:14; 2Ti 4:11; Phle 1:24 --and probably in all three the third evangelist is the person spoken of. Combining the traditional e...

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Luke in Hitchcock's Bible Names

luminous; white...

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Luke in 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 Ph...

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Luke in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

front Contracted from Lucanus, as Silas is contracted from Silvanus. A slave name. As Luke was a "physician," a profession often exercised by slaves and freedmen, he may have been a freedman. Eusebius (H.E. iii. 4) states that Antioch was his native city. He was of Gentile parentage before he became a Christian; as appears from Colossians 4:1...

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