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The traditional view on Lukan authorship, however, is held by many scholars, and according to Raymond Brown it is " not impossible " that they are right.

Since Luke was not prominent there is no obvious reason that this gospel and Acts would have been attributed to him if he didn't write them.

If Luke was only a sometime companion of Paul who idealized him long after his death, that could explain the differences between Acts and Paul's letter.

Even though the evangelist as depicted in the New Testament doesn't match the patristic description of Luke, the traditional view is still argued today.