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LukeAny idea who wrote the book of acts or part of?. It was a eye witness someone who was traveling with Paul I haven't figured it out yet.
Luke
Read acts one .How do you know?. Can you back it up?
Acts 1Read acts one .
Acts 1
Theophilus is the name of the person that Luke wrote the book for (in modern terms, the book was dedicated to Theophilus).
In other languages “Acts” is called the “apostles’ history”as that is the subject.So it could be called Theophilus because the author wrote it to Theophilus. Like Timothy was written by Paul to Timothy..
So Acts and Luke are written by the same author, yet Luke seems like a second hand account the way it is written and acts is a eye witness account.
So the author is someone who was not an original disciple who was with Jesus all the time and someone who travelled with Paul and wrote down a second hand gospel account and an eye witness account.
That is the consensus of scholars that are not looking to make a name and fortune by publishing a popular "bible bashing" book (like The Davinci Code). All of the Scholars from the first few centuries (that had access to the original manuscript and people that knew the Apostles or stories only 1 generation removed ("my teacher told me that Luke said to him ...") came to the same conclusion about Luke being the Author of both books with no other candidate ever suggested among the early Bishops (church leaders).So, the evidence leads that Luke is a very very early Gospel and account of the life and teachings of Jesus, as it was written before acts and acts was eye witness with the diciples. Must be very early gospel. So thats a reliable source. Not like the original was written many many years later. The diciples were around when Luke was written. The earliest manuscripts found might be second copies.