Jesus began to do and teach", and the implication is that "the Acts" is a second treatise of

all that Jesus continued to do and teach, after His ascension. This strengthens our

argument, for the epistles of Paul make frequent reference to the fact that, though Paul is

writing, the doctrine of which he writes was received by revelation. Christ still teaches in

the epistles of Paul, and to omit them from a narrative that sets out to record "all" that the

ascended Lord "continued" to do and teach, would be a calamity. Our argument depends

not upon the title of the book but upon its purpose. It is a strange mentality that can talk

of the Acts as though it were an independent fact, altogether separated from the epistolary

activities of the same apostle, ministering to the same churches, at the same time as that

with which the record deals.

We append a chart that may be useful in visualizing this interdependence of Acts and

Epistles, and this chart must be looked upon as a supplement to the one published in

Volume XXV page 8.

In the opening article of this series, appearing in Volume XXIV, page 1, we set out

the structure of the book of the Acts as a whole, and found it to be sub-divided as

The present treatise, we found, fell under two heads:

Having arrived at Acts 13:, we must look at this second portion of the present

treatise as a whole, when, again, we find that it, too, falls under two heads, namely the

twofold ministry of the one apostle Paul.

We draw the reader's attention to a necessary modification of the structure given on

page 3 of Volume 24:  Instead of

section C

referring to Paul's ministry

independently of the twelve, ending with 14: 28, it should end with 15: 39, and

section D, referring to Paul's ministry with the twelve, should open with 16: 6. This