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The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά Λουκαν, Kata Loukan) is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which narrates a story of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. The author was also the author of Acts of the Apostles. Like the other canonical gospels, the gospel originally circulated anonymously. Since at least the 2nd century, authorship has been ascribed to the Luke named in Colossians , a doctor and disciple of Paul. 'Scholars are about evenly divided on whether [the] attribution to Luke [the companion of Paul] should be accepted as historical ...'.[1]