There’s no avoiding the conclusion that Luke-Acts was written by a traveling companion of Paul who had the opportunity to interview eyewitnesses to Jesus’ life while in Jerusalem. So who were some of these eyewitnesses? Perhaps we can get some clue by subtracting from the Gospel of Luke everything found in the other gospels and seeing what is unique to Luke. When you do this, what you discover is that many of Luke’s unique narratives are connected to women who followed Jesus: people like Joanna and Susanna, and, significantly, Mary, Jesus’ mother.
