Colossians 4:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

Luke, the beloved physician (the evangelist) - may have first become connected with Paul in professionally attending on him in the sickness under which he laboured in Phrygia and Galatia (where he was detained by sickness), in the early part of that journey wherein Luke first is found in his company (Acts 16:10: cf. note, Galatians 4:13). Thus, the allusion to his medical profession is appropriate in writing to men of Phrygia. Luke ministered to Paul in his last imprisonment (2 Timothy 4:11).

Demas - included among his "fellow-labourers" (Philemon 1:24); afterward a deserter from him through love of this world (2 Timothy 4:10). He is last, and alone has no honourable or descriptive epithet. Perhaps, already, his real character was betraying itself.

Colossians 4:14

14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.