he was in the very centre of God's purpose: it was a Gentile dispensation and therefore neither Antioch nor

Jerusalem was so fitting a centre as Rome.

Commentators have advanced many ingenious reasons for the `unfinished' character of the Acts. We, however,

can well believe that it accomplished the Divine purpose for which it was undertaken, and that it was not the

intention of the writer to go beyond the arrival at Rome. How Paul fared before Nero; how many times he was

heard; whether Poppaea had any influence over Nero at the time, and the thousand and one points to which the

imagination and enquiring mind seek an answer, these are apparently no concern of the inspired historian and

consequently should be no concern of ours. Let us be glad of that concluding phrase, `With all confidence,

unforbidden, unhindered' and rejoice that during that confident and unhindered period of his bondage, the apostle

was moved to pen those immortal epistles, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians.

It is with great joy, yet with reluctance, that we bring this book to a close. We are confident that whoever

approaches the Acts of the Apostles with a clear eye for its dispensational teaching will realize the importance of

Acts 28 in the development of the purpose of the ages. For the testimony of Luke, the beloved physician and

faithful minister with the apostle to the Gentiles, every believer should give thanks, for, without the Acts of the

Apostles, we should have little or no historic background for the ministry of the ascended Christ.

STRUCTURES

Acts as a whole....................................................3, 4

Acts 1:1-14..............................................................5

Acts 1:15 to 2:13 ...................................................53

Acts 2:14 to 8:1 .....................................................64

Acts 2:14-40..........................................................74

Acts 2:41-47..........................................................76

Acts 3:1 to 4:22 .....................................................80

Acts 3:12 to 4:12 ...................................................81

Acts 6:15 to 8:1 .....................................................92

Acts 8:1 to 11:30 ...................................................97

Acts 9:1-31............................................................98

Acts 12:24 to 28:31 .............................................133

Acts 12:24 to 16:5 ....................................... 141, 182

Acts 13:16-41 ......................................................154

Acts 13:42 to 14:28 .............................................158

Acts 14:6-20........................................................160

Acts 15:1-35........................................................165

Acts 15:1,2 ..........................................................165

Acts 15:3-5..........................................................169

Acts 15:6-12........................................................170

Acts 15:13-21 ......................................................172

Acts 15:22-29 ......................................................176

Acts 15:30-35 ......................................................179

Acts 16:6 to 19:20 ...............................................188

Acts 16:6-11........................................................193

Acts 17:1-14........................................................213