Acts 28 and a lot of unanswered questions.

In this conclusion to the Book of Acts, I am left puzzling over some unanswered questions. Here are a bunch of "whys".

• Why is there no account of Paul standing before Caesar?
• Why are there accounts of one rescue after another which enable Paul to get to Rome, and then in the final chapter of the book, we are not given any account of his trial, and particularly its outcome?
• Maybe Luke completed the book of Acts before these things happened. but...
• Why is there no great emphasis on Paul’s Gentile ministry (or ministry in general) in Rome?
• Why is there so much more emphasis on the shipwreck in chapter 27 and the beginning of chapter 28 than on Paul’s time in Rome in chapter 28?
• Why is there so much emphasis on Publius and his family, and yet none on Caesar?
• Why was it so important for Paul to reach Rome when there was already a church there?
• What did Paul’s visit to Rome accomplish?

As Luke draws the Book of Acts to a conclusion, he leaves a lot of our questions unanswered. Perhaps Luke intended to write yet another volume. What is the message to Luke’s early readers, and what is the message for us? What did we learn in our reading of this final chapter of Acts.