A Prologue made vppon the Gospell of S. Luke, by M. William Tyndall.
LVcas was Paules com¦panion, at the least way * 1.1 from the 16. of the Actes forth, and with hym in all his tribulation, and he went with Paule at hys last goyng vp to Ierusalem. And from thence he followed Paul to Ce∣sarea, where he lay two yere in prison. And from Cesarea he went with Paul to Rome, where he lay ij. other yeares in prison. And he was with Paul whē he wrote to the Colossians, as he testi∣fieth in the fourth chapter, saying: The beloued Lucas the Phisitian saluteth you. And he was with Paul when he wrote the second epistle to Timothie, as he sayeth in the 4. chapter, saying: Onely Lucas is with me: Wherby ye see the autoritie of the man, & of what credence and reuerence hys writing is worthy of, and thereto of whome he learned the story of his Gospell, as he hymselfe sayth, how that he learned it, and searched it out with all diligence of them that saw it, and were also par∣takers at the doyng. And as for the Actes of the Apostles, he himselfe was at the doyng of them (at the least) of the most parte, and had his part ther∣in, and therefore wrote of hys owne experience.