Acts 17:1-15
In Thessalonica
1When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ," he said. 4Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few prominent women.
5But the Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason's house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd. 6But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting: "These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, 7and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar's decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus." 8When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil. 9Then they made Jason and the others post bond and let them go.
In Berea
10As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. 12Many of the Jews believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men.
13When the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, they went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up. 14The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. 15The men who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
Colossians 4:14
Luke the Beloved Physician
14Our dear friend Luke, the doctor, and Demas send greetings.
Paul and Luke were friends and apostles of Christ...Luke writes extensively about Paul in the Acts of the Apostles...Paul mentions Luke in some of his letters to the churches he is starting and encouraging...Paul and Luke were friends...Friends exchange stories and ideas...
Luke writes about Paul traveling throughout the old world, after Jesus had died, and resurrected...Luke writes that it was Paul's custom when he arrived in a new town, to seek out the synagogue and begin preaching the good news of Jesus Christ...Luke writes about how Paul had met Jesus on His way to Damascus...Jesus had died but resurrected...Jesus would choose Paul as His vessel to preach the good news about Him (Acts 9)...Paul confirms Luke's writings about meeting Jesus after He was resurrected in his letters to the Corinthians and to the Galatians (1 Corinthians 15:8 and Galatians 1:11-15)...Paul had gone from someone persecuting followers of Christ to one of the early Christian leaders to lead the early church...His meeting Jesus changed him...Paul spread the word like no other throughout the world...
Paul was one who studied the Scripture under the teacher Gamaliel...He was called by God, who revealed His Son to him (Galatians 1:15)...No doubt, Paul would have read the Gospel According to Luke, and the Acts of the Apostles, if Luke wrote them before his death and was available, since they were so close...But no doubt Luke and Paul would have exchanged and both been involved in conversations about Jesus and the acts of the other apostles throughout their lives...Paul is a reason to believe in Jesus...Paul would write thirteen New Testament Books, and Luke two about Jesus...Paul believed in God, but did not not believe that Jesus was our Messiah, until he was converted...Paul persecuted Christians and the first churches (Galatians 1:14)...But then he was converted...He suffered the rest of his life to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in the synagogues to each city he went...He did not know what would await him in the cities or the synagogues...
Some would not believe Paul, some would try to kill him, some would try to persecute him., and others would listen pull out their Scriptures to see if what Paul was saying was true...Paul had seen the risen Christ, and for the rest of his life would teach, and write for and about Him...St. Paul is one of our great apostles who teach us the great news...His conversion is a key point in the history of Christianity and in Jesus' teachings being spread throughout the world...
Paul has seen the living Jesus...Paul gives us a great writing on the resurrection of Jesus, in his first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 15)...And if Paul's conversion is true, then Jesus rose from the dead, for everything St. Paul saw and did he attributed to the living Christ (from More Than a Carpenter, by Josh McDowell, chapter 7, page 87)...
St. Paul and St. Luke knew about the Twelve disciples, but more importantly knew about Jesus, especially right after His death...They knew each other and were friends...Both were authors in the Greatest Book to have ever been written... One was a doctor and the other was a missionary...Both wrote about the Messiah's resurrection, which is the most important fact in man's history...Luke wrote about it, in his gospel in chapter twenty four and Paul in his letter to Corinth in first Corinthians chapter fifteen...These are two of the great students of Christ,...St. Luke and St. Paul give us faith and hope in the resurrection of Jesus Christ...