From They to We

Readings:
II Chronicles 2
Acts 16:6-15

Focus:
Acts 16:10a: "As soon as he had seen this vision, we set about getting a passage to Macedonia."

It is just at this sentence in the Book of Acts that the narrative changes from third person to first person. Up until now it had been "they went", etc.; now it becomes "we went", etc. Apparently it is at this point that Luke, presumably the writer of Acts, joins the party.

I like little marks like this in the Bible. It reminds me that real people wrote the various parts of it. God was behind them, guiding what they wrote, but they were individuals, and what they wrote about really happened at a particular time and place. These texts are as well attested, if not better attested, than most of the Roman documents that are widely accepted. We can trust their validity. Someone really wrote this, who actually took part in it. It's true.