text, also known as the Anti-Marcionite Prologue, contained a description of Luke that Eusebius, among others, followed: “Luke was a Syrian of Antioch, by profession a physician, the disciple of the apostles, and later a follower of Paul” (trans. Fitzmyer 1981–85, 1:38; see Gutwenger 1946, 393–409). The view that Luke was a gentile does not rest solely on the tradition that he was an Antiochene, however. Rather, some accept Col. 4:14 as identifying Luke as a gentile. In the preceding verses of this