Day 14 - Luke 18:31-22:53

We find that, like Mark, Luke was not an eyewitness to the life of Christ. Although Papias (who described the gospel of Mark as being the summation of Peter's teaching) has nothing to say regarding Luke, he did know of a gospel collection. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lugdunum (now Lyons) in the late 2nd century, clearly knew of the gospel of Luke and recognized his gospel as the preaching of Paul. Eusebius, quotes Irenaeus as follows:

Matthew published among the Hebrews a gospel in writing also [i.e. in addition Old Testament the oral preaching] in their own speech, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel and founding the church in Rome. After their death Mark in his turn, Peter's disciple and interpreter, delivered to us in writing the contents of Peter's preaching. Luke also, the follower of Paul, set down in a book the gospel preached by him [i.e. by Paul]. Then John, the disciple of the Lord, the one who leaned back on his bosom, gave forth his gospel while he was living at Ephesus in Asia.

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