ABSTRACT
It is very commonly held that Paul is ‘the exalted hero of the whole second half of Acts’ (Brown 1997: 324) and that his travel companion, Luke, is a great admirer and sympathetic compiler of his work and thought. Fitzmyer (1981: 35-51) represents modern scholars who accept as accurate and reliable the traditional view that Luke was a companion of Paul, the author of the Gospel and Acts, and one who heroicized Paul. This position has a very ancient and long tradition because the early Christian writers, with their own agenda, also depicted Luke as Paul’s companion and as a faithful recorder of ‘Paul’s gospel’.
