the story of the witness to the gospel after Jesus was taken up into heaven. But why does Luke, writing in the 70s or later, end his account in the 60s? Numerous proposals have attempted to ascertain Luke’s purpose in writing this history. Only a few will be mentioned here.6 1. The promise of the extension of the gospel from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth (1:8) suggests that Luke is concerned with the geographical progress of the gospel. Acts is not the story of how the gospel got to Rome. Luke