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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Taylor Kemp. I'm the director, and with me is our illustrious chief content officer, Dr. Benakers. That was kind. Good to see you. Yeah, good to have. Thanks for being here. Good to be saint. Thank you. Today we are talking about the saint, or on this show, we talk about the saints. Today we are talking about St. Luke. So, let us begin with the most obvious of questions. Who is St. Luke?

Who is St. Luke? He's the third gospel writer, so the writer of the third gospel, I should say.

So he's an evangelist. He writes the gospel that we call the gospel of St. Luke. And he also is the writer of Acts of the Apostles. So two major books in the New Testament were written by St. Luke. He's also the only non-Israelite, non-Jewish writer in the New Testament as well. That's interesting. Yeah. So what, yes, what do we know about him? Yeah, so if we're looking at the scriptures, we're going to go through different passages of scripture, we can gather the data. and looking at the data, what we discover is that he's from Antioch in Syria. Okay.

Uh, We're going to go through different passages of scripture. We can gather the data. And looking at the data, what we discover is that he's from Antioch in Syria.

He is, it's unclear if he was a pagan maybe who converted to Judaism and then to Christianity

or if he was a pagan who directly converted to Christianity.

He's trained in the art of medicine. Paul in Colossians

chapter 4, verse 14, calls him the beloved physician. Okay. It's really beautiful title,

the beloved physician. Like he's, you know, it's great to travel with the doctor. It is.

And, which I think is actually why some, we see mercy, why we see healings in his gospel in a particular way. Yeah, with some detail. Yes. And he also is not a disciple of Jesus. So we don't have any evidence that he met Jesus in his lifetime. Which I actually think that's a point that's worth hanging on a little bit. Yeah. There's been times where I remember telling people that not all of the people who wrote

the gospel's new Christ and they're like, what? Right. So yeah, St. Luke didn't, he was not a disciple of Jesus in his earthly ministry. That's right. So same with Mark. So we look at Mark, we don't, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, there's a chance that Mark could have been part of the 72, and some I've even heard

argued that Luke might have been part of the 72, and some I've even heard argued that

Luke might have been part of the 72, but really Matthew and John are the two disciples of Jesus.

We see them listed as apostles of Jesus as well. Mark bases his gospel on the preaching of

St. Peter. Luke bases his preaching on the gospel of St. Paul. And how do we know that?

Yes, so a couple of things we can look at.

So not only gospel, his gospel is not only based on Paul's account because we have scenes in Luke's gospel that we don't have in other gospels. And Luke has this beautiful beginning to his gospel,

if you have your translation in front of you, but just the very beginning of Luke, where he tells,

you know, he writes his gospel and he's writing to a person named Theophilus, and he's telling

him what he's going to do in his gospel. And as much as many have undertaken to compile a narrative

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