Chapter 22 – FAMILIA MUNDIAL
1 [1-21] Paul’s first defense speech is presented to the Jerusalem crowds. Luke here presents Paul as a devout Jew (⇒ Acts 22:3) and zealous persecutor of the Christian community (⇒ Acts 22:4-5), and then recounts the conversion of Paul for the second time in Acts (see the note on ⇒ Acts 9:1-19).
2 [15] His witness: like the Galilean followers during the historical ministry of Jesus, Paul too, through his experience of the risen Christ, is to be a witness to the resurrection (compare ⇒ Acts 1:8; ⇒ 10:39-41; ⇒ Luke 24:48).
3 [21] Paul endeavors to explain that his position on the law has not been identical with that of his audience because it has been his prophetic mission to preach to the Gentiles to whom the law was not addressed and who had no faith in it as a way of salvation.
4 [22] Paul’s suggestion that his prophetic mission to the Gentiles did not involve his imposing the law on them provokes the same opposition as occurred in Pisidian Antioch (⇒ Acts 13:45).
5 [25] Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman citizen and has not been tried?: see the note on ⇒ Acts 16:37.