¹⁷If Luke had composed the entire speech of the Protomartyr, simply wanting to express his ideas, he would hardly have allowed the deviations in the citation of the Bible (Septuagint) that appear in the text. It seems that the Evangelist had an early source available to him from which he drew material while working on Acts. The gap in the flow of the speech (towards the end), apparently, reflects the preacher’s desire to hurry to the main point (he realized that he might not be allowed to finish).