The Acts of the Apostles

XX. 15
xxvii. 3
CHRONOLOGICAL DATA 11
XX. 15 ... -I
xxi. 26 . . . . I ^ ix°f^^^V {^^^- 26 with w^pa, xiii. 44
[xiii. 44. Reading j with aa^^arov)
uncertain] . .J
xi. 1 . . . .1 . ... .
' * ' *
^^* '^ ^^'^^ ^^
XV 17
L ^ ^^'J' w^poL (in xxvii. 18 followed
y
xxvii.' ^^^^
'ii.'is IR ; : : :j '
' * 'f by 77x^^77,)
From these lists we derive the following con-
clusions :
—
1. Exact statements of longer periods of time
occurring in this book refer exclusively to the duration
of the stay or the ministry of St. Paul in some
important place : St. Paul was B.full year in Antioch,
nearly a month in Thessalonica, eighteen months in
Corinth, two years and three months (thus a Tpierla)
in Ephesus, three months in Greece (on his second
visit), two years (SierLo) in Csesarea in prison, [three
months in Malta], and two Jull years (Sierlap oXrjv)
in Rome.^ The duration of the ministry of the
Apostle in these places was so important to St. Luke
that he has expressly mentioned it. For questions
connected with the inner development of the Christian
communities, so far as these had nothing to do with the
Jews and heathen^ he in his book evidently betrays no
interest; but the length of time during which these
communities had the good fortune to see the Apostle
in their midst is a matter in which he had, and he
1 The two instances which I have included above among the
years and months, but in brackets, do not come into account ; for
in xxiv. 10, 17 only passing mention is made of " several years "
without any closer determination of the periods.