Luke & Acts: How do they relate? | N.T. Wright Online

How do Luke and Acts relate to one another? We’re pretty sure these two volumes were composed by the same person, but why then split them up? It appears as if Luke is telling a story of anticipation and inbreaking in his Gospel that finds its collective outworking in Acts.

[Thoughtpologetics]

Luke didn’t write acts

It just doesn’t make sense. At the end of Luke, it says Jesus rose from the dead, appeared to the disciples and then ascended to heaven in front of them all on the same day…

But then in the ver very beginning of Acts this same writer was like oh wait, Jesus was actually alive for 40 days and then taken up into heaven…

Luke is deliberate in going from the tomb, to the events occurring on the same day, even saying in 24:13 “on the same day”. At most you could infer that Luke’s telling of the ascension of Jesus took place over 2 days, but in no way is 40 ever even close to eluded to.

Acts is also Holy Spirit heavy, more like Paul’s writings, mentioning it over 50 times while Luke mentions it 17, John and Mathew mention the Holy Spirit 14 and 13 times…

Much of the evidence that the same author wrote both comes from the Bible itself, like Luke is writing to Theophilus and then in Acts he’s writing to Theophilus and says “in my last book” but does that even matter, “Paul” writes that he’s writing 2 Timmothy and we know for a fact Paul did not write 2 Timmothy… and to go back to my main point, to be so far off on the ascension when both books we’re written only a couple years apart, and that’s the main thing we can determine from the style of writing is more time frame rather than actual writer…

Finally any evidence from 2nd Timmothy, like the evidence that only Luke was with Paul, is irrelevant, because we know for a fact Paul didn’t write 2nd Timmothy… same with Colossians, and Colossians is the only verse that calls Luke a physician… neither written by Paul…

[mil.ganmil.gan]

It is just two separate books, describing events which happened one after the other. No big secrecy about that I am afraid