The Acts of the Apostles

84 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
concerning the choice of the " Seven " and their
names, or concerning the heroic Stephen and his
teaching against the Temple,^ or concerning the
gradual preparation for the transformation of Chris-
tian Judaism into Christianity which underlies all
these events in the history of the Church of Jerusalem,
but only from St. Luke (chaps, vi.—vii.) ; and
it is St. Luke, not St. Paul, who, in the story of
Ananias and Sapphira, has painted the shadows into
the portrait of the " saints " of Jerusalem and makes
us suspect many other shadows. All these things—in
the first place, the topographical statements ; in the
second place, the more intimate acquaintance with
the early history of the Church in Jerusalem—admirably
agree with the information afforded by St. Luke
himself, that he came to Jerusalem with St. Paul
(and there shared with the Apostle the hospitality of
an "old disciple, Mnason of Cyprus,'' xxi. 15, 16).
We have already mentioned what other knowledge he
had of Judaea. Let it be added that he knows that
it took two days to travel from Jerusalem to Caesarea
by way of Antipatris (about 62 miles).* Of the
cities on the coast Caesarea and the towns lying to
the south, the former is mentioned fifteen times in
the book. St. Luke himself landed there (xxi. 8)
^ Also chap, xxi, 28 is important from this point of view ; here
it is the Temple which is most thought of.
2 Chap, xxiii. 31 /. This was not the first time that St. Paul had
gone from Jerusalem to Caesarea ;
already in ix. 30 we are told that
the brethren escorted him thither from Jerusalem ; in xviii. 22,
however, we must not suppose that a journey from Cassarea to
Jerusalem and thence to Antioch is implied. Neither, on the other
hand, was Caesarea the goal of this journey; but the ship, in
which St. Paul voyaged to the East, was bound for Caesarea.
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