Introduction to the New Testament: Luke, Acts, and John, Vol. 3 - 9780865241190

Chapters 9: The Writings of Luke, Ch. 10: The Writings of John and Ch. 11: Chronological Survey, plus Index

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Sample from this textr, regarding the author of Acts Ch. 11) : Inasmuch as the narrative in this passage dates back to a time preceding the first year of the joint work of Paul and Barnabas in Antioch (43 before the Emperor Claudius came to the throne (jan. 41 for both dates cf. Part XL), the narrator must have become a member of the Antiochian Church at the latest by the year 40, so that his conversion cannot have been due to Paul, who did not come to Antioch until 43. Nor is this statement affirmed by Luke. The tradition that Luke was a native of Antioch was always so definite, that it is extremely unlikely that it is the result of scholarly reflection upon Acts xi. 27 (n. And we are unable to prove that the Oldest witnesses for this tradition, Eusebius and Julius Africanus, who wrote probably a hundred years before Eusebius, were not in possession of other information besides Acts xi. 27. There must be taken into account here the further tradition, likewise old, according to which there was a rich Antiochian by the name of Theophilus who became a Christian in the apostolic age, and who later was expressly identified with the Theophilus of Luke i. 3; Acts i. 1; but not in any way contradictory of the original story (11. Every thing else that is said and narrated about Luke impresses us as being of the nature either of uncertain conjecture or inference from the we passages of Acts