every day a portion, as long as he lived” (25:29–30). The point is not that King Jehoiachin was a type for the Apostle Paul but rather that Luke leaves the theological history of what God is doing in God’s time as open-ended as the Deuteronomic historian had. Jehoiachin was freed from prison in Babylon at the beginning of the Dispersion of Jews throughout the world; Paul, although awaiting trial, was free to witness in Rome at the beginning of the dispersion of the church throughout the world. Each