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Epiphanius states that Luke was one of the Seventy ( Panarion 51. 11 ), and John Chrysostom indicates at one point that the " brother " Paul mentions in 2 Corinthians 8: 18 is either Luke or Barnabas.

J. Wenham asserts that Luke was " one of the Seventy, the Emmaus disciple, Lucius of Cyrene and Paul's kinsman.

" Not all scholars are as confident of all of these attributes as Wenham is, not least because Luke's own statement at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke () freely admits that he was not an eyewitness to the events of the Gospel.