# Luke, The Holy Evangelist, Hanged On A Green Olive Tree, In Greece, A. D. 93.

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LUKE HANGED ON AN OLIVE TREE.

Luke, the third among the holy evangelists, was,
according to the testimony of the ancients, a Syrian
of Antioch, and by occupation a physician. Bybelsch
Næmbœck, about Luke, from Euseb. and
Hieron. Col. 4:14.

It was the will of the Lord to use him as a physician
of souls; to which end he has left to mankind
two excellent books on spiritual medicine; namely,
his holy Gospel and the Acts of the holy Apostles.

Concerning his parents there is nowhere anything
mentioned; hence little or almost no account can be
given of his natural descent, excepting his birthplace,
and that he descended from the Syrian nation.
It is supposed that he had no wife; though
nearly all the other apostles and evangelists were
married.

According to the opinion of Jerome, he was, before
his conversion, a Jewish proselyte, though of
Gentile descent; which is quite probable, since,
according to the judgment of linguists, his style is
far more excellent and perfect in Greek than in Hebrew.
Joh. Gys., in Hist. Mart. ex Hieronimo.

He afterwards, through the preaching of Paul,
became a Christian A. D. 38, after he had come
from Thebes to Antioch. Konst-tooneel, etc., in the
life of Luke.

He became a disciple of the apostles, but especially
a traveling companion of the apostle Paul, so
that he was with him in many perils and difficulties
on sea and on land.

He was so intimate with Paul, and his special
friend to such a degree that, according to the ancients,
he wrote the Gospel under his dictation and
instruction. He has also given a faithful account of
Paul’s principal travels until his first imprisonment
at Rome. Joh. Gys. Hist. Mart., concerning Luke
the evangelist.

Paul makes frequent mention of him in his epistles;
for to the Colossians he writes: “Luke, the
physician, . . . greet you.” Col. 4:14. To Philemon:
“There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner
in Christ Jesus; Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas,
Lucas, my fellow-laborers.” Phil. 23,24. Likewise,
to Timothy: “Only Luke is with me.” 2 Tim.
4:11.

Luke was therefore, as it appears, a companion
of Paul, not only in his travels, but also during his
imprisonment at Rome. So that he was twice
92brought, together with Paul, before the Emperor
Nero. P. J. Twisck, taken from Paul’s epistles to
Timothy.

Respecting his end, some write that, while
preaching in Greece, he was hanged by the ungodly
to a green olive tree; others relate that he was in
the eighty-fourth year of his age, at the time of his
death. Bybelsch Næmbœck, letter L., on the name
Luke, fol. 624, col. 1. Konst-tooneel van veertig.

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