Luke's account ends with Christ "carried up into heaven " Lu 24:51
The phrase is in the Brown/Comfort interlinear; the footnotes of NASV; the Aland/Black Greek text. The phrase is considered to be problematic because it's earliest papyri evidence is of the 200 AD lineage; it's earliest uncial evidence is 300 AD; it earliest numbered uncial document is 800 AD. If the phase was not in the original, then Luke, in Acts 1, is telling us where his gospel story ended. If it is intented to be in the text, then Luke is, indeed, tying the two publications togather. In either case -- there is no false teaching, no doctrinal variations, no nothing.
For the discerning
JD
