To give you a sense of the credibility of Luke as a historian, following is a partial list of proper names for cities, ports, people, etc. in which he provides specific details that could have only been known at that time through eyewitness - and have been verified today to be accurate. Norm Geisler and Frank Turek list 84 of these types of details in their fascinating book, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist”:
- Adriatic Sea
- Agora
- Amphipolis
- Ananias
- Antonia
- Appian Way
- Appii Forum
- Appollonia
- Artemis
- Athens
- Attalia
- Caesarea
- Cilicia
- Cilician Gates
- Cnidus
- Corinth
- Cyprus
- Derbe
- Ephesus
- Fair Havens
- Felix
- Gallio
- Lasea
- Lycaonia
- Lystra
- Malta
- Pamphylia
- Perga
- Philippi
- Porcius Festus
- Rhegium
- Samothrace
- Thessalonica
- Thyatira
- TresTabernae
- Troas
- Tyrannus