and John especially), Acts, Romans, and some others—are about this length in ancient script. It would seem that Luke, who set out to write a history of Jesus’ life and the expansion of the church up to his own age, decided to do it on two scrolls. The first scroll concerned the life of Christianity’s founder and the second picked up the story and carried it to the arrival of the apostle Paul in Rome about thirty years later. Some scholars think that Luke had probably planned a third as well, dealing