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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
Poppća 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 series 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.