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Eyewitness Testimony in the New Testament
Luke

Luke was an educated Greek, a doctor by profession. He wrote Luke and Acts which together
account for two-fifths of the New Testament. He covers the period from the birth of Christ into
the first thirty years of the story of the early church, a period of 60 years. His writing gives a
historical context for the rest of the New Testament.

Luke's record as a historian

Luke's ability as a historian has been amply documented. There are numerous instances where he
refers to rulers and historical events in his two books. These can be tested from other sources. It
is interesting to note the number of times in which Luke has been thought to have been wrong in
the particular titles he has given to rulers in certain countries or cities, and which later
archaeological and other discoveries have proved to be right. Some examples are: reference to
Philippian rulers as praetors, his choice of the word proconsul as the title for Gallio in Corinth,
his describing of Publius as "the leading man of the island" in Malta, and his usage of politarchs
to denote the civil authorities of Thessalonica. (He gets no less than fifteen Roman governor titles
right.) Luke's accurate employment of the various titles used in the Roman Empire has been
compared to the easy and confident way in which an Oxford man in ordinary conversation will
refer to the Heads of Oxford colleges by their proper titles - the Provost of Oriel, the Master of
Balliol, the Rector of Exeter, the President of Magdalen, and so on.

His accuracy in such details extends also to the more general sphere of
local colour and atmosphere in such places as Jerusalem, Syrian Antioch,
Philippi and Ephesus. He gets the atmosphere right every time. It is worth
noting that the description of his sea voyage with Paul to Rome, and their
shipwreck on Malta, in Acts 27, has been called "one of the most
instructive documents for the knowledge of ancient seamanship" that we
possess. There is, in fact, only one other document in existence that gives
similar detail as to what sailing was like in those days. The eminent Roman
historian A. N. Sherwin-White said of Acts:

Any attempt to reject its basic historicity, even in matters of detail, must now appear absurd.

Classical scholar E. M. Blaiklock said of Luke:

Luke is a consummate historian, to be ranked in his own right with the great writers of the
Greeks.

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No need for an answer. Once again you are resorting to lies, obviously you have no intention of taking this topic seriously

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