The Acts of the Apostles

72 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
from Caesarea to Rome (chaps, xxvii. xxviii.). It is
more than doubtful whether he was with the Apostle
between these two dates, for the " we " breaks off
directly after the arrival in Jerusalem, and first
appears again at the departure from Caesarea. The
explanation that the " we " does not appear in the
chapters in question (xxi. 19-xxvi. 32), because St.
Luke had nothing to relate in which he himself took
part as eye-witness is most improbable; for he him-
self relates that St. Paul when in Caesarea could
receive his friends without hindrance, and that they
were allowed to minister to him (xxiv. 23). There
must have been opportunity enough for St. Luke not
only to have visited the Apostle, but also to have
shared in experiences of his that were worthy of
record. Besides this he could have attended on the
various occasions when St. Paul appeared before the
procurator; even here, however, he has not written
as an eye-witness. We may therefore assume that
St. Luke set foot indeed upon the soil of Palestine
and Jerusalem in company with the Apostle, but that
he left it again very soon. We accordingly expect
that he will show the amount of information con-
cerning the country and city which a traveller is
wont to acquire after a short residence. And this
is just what we find in the work itself. Here, how-
ever, we can only show that this is so in the case of
the information he gives us on geographical, topo-
graphical, and ethnographical points.
'Yjiieis o'lSare to yevojmevov pniJ-o, KaO' oXrjg r^y
'lou^a/a?, ap^djUL€vo^ airo r^? YaKiKaLa^ jiieTa to
^airTia-juLa o eKJjpu^ev ''Icodwrj^ (x. 37) : the movement