Luke devoted much space to the prisoner Paul. Nearly 25% of Acts concerns Paul’s final arrest and imprisonment.1 When the twenty-four verses of the earlier Philippian arrest and imprisonment are included, the proportion of Acts devoted to Pauline imprisonments approaches 30%. The reader’s interest in Luke’s intention is heightened when the amount of space devoted to the free and the imprisoned Paul is compared. The last section on Paul’s arrest and incarceration ‘is slightly longer than that describing