The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four Gospels of the New
Testament which tells the story of Jesus Christ's life, death,
and resurrection. Although the text does not name its author,
the traditional view is that it was written by Luke, a follower
of Paul and also the author of the Acts of the Apostles. The
evangelist does not claim to have been an eyewitness of Jesus's
life, but to have investigated everything carefully and to have
written an orderly narrative of the facts (Luke 1:1-4). The
authors of the other three Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and John,
probably used similar sources. According to the most commonly
accepted solution to the synoptic problem, Luke's sources
included the Mark and another collection of lost sayings known
by scholars as Q. Luke's Gospel has been called "the Gospel of
the nations, full of mercy and hope, assured to the world by the
love of a suffering Saviour;" "the Gospel of the saintly life;"
"the Gospel for the Greeks; the Gospel of the future; the Gospel
of progressive Christi