far:42 Acts, while coherent, becomes increasingly selective. This leads onto the suggestion that Luke has a more focused, apologetic intent. According to Maddox and Johnson, Luke-Acts attempts to show that Jesus and the church he founded were God’s fulfilment of his promises to Israel, thereby assuring both Jewish and Gentile believers of the reliability of the message they have heard, and of God’s faithfulness.43 This accounts well for much of the material in Acts: the great number of Old Testament