Father Raphael Misiaoulis: "Luke is alone with me"translated

"Luke is alone with me"

From the day the Apostle Luke was seduced by the words of the Apostle Paul, he remained his faithful follower. And this is presumed in the Acts of the Apostles, as well as in other Pauline letters. In particular, Luke accompanied him to Macedonia from Troas (Acts 16, 11-12) and remained in Philippi probably until the end of his third apostolic journey. He accompanied the Apostle Paul from Caesarea to Rome (Acts 27, 1 and 28, 16) on an adventurous sea journey. According to Paul's letters, he was his companion until the end of his first imprisonment (Col. 4, 14 and Phil. 24), as well as during the second just before the end of Paul (2 Tim. 4, 11).

At one point, with a complaint, the Apostle Paul says everyone abandoned me in the adventures and hardships for the spread of the Gospel. "Lucas is alone with me." And at another point

"In my first apology, no one sympathized with me, but everyone abandoned me; do not count on them."  He felt deeply lonely and abandoned by many of his associates. His only human consolation was the Evangelist Luke. That is why he presents him as...