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Acts 22
Acts 22 is the twenty-second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the events leading to Paul's imprisonment in Jerusalem. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[1] TextThe original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 30 verses. Textual witnessesSome early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
LocationsThe events in this chapter took place in Jerusalem. Some other places are also mentioned in this chapter: Paul's speech in the Temple (verses 1–21)This part contains the first in a series of Paul's apologetic speeches (verse 1: "... to you now in [my] defence", Greek: προς υμας νυνι απολογιας,[2] pros humas nuni apologias).[3] Paul's opening words use the language and address designed to stress a commonalty with his audience (verses 1–2), and to emphasize that he, like them, is a 'zealot for God' (verse 3) with a 'strict seminary education rooted in Jerusalem'; both are consistent with Paul's own claims about his education in Galatians 1:13–14.[3] Verse 1
The address to "men, brethren, and fathers" matches the opening words used by Stephen in his address to the Sanhedrin in Acts 7:2.[5] Verse 3
Verse 8
The detailed record of Paul's conversion story here indicates that this account is important for Luke, even with some differences from the record in chapter 9, thus shedding 'an interesting light on Luke's practice as a narrator', who 'sees no difficulty in the fact that the retold story is slightly different each time'.[3] The story is further repeated in Acts 26. Verse 12
Verse 16
Verses 17–18
Paul the Roman (verses 22–29)When Paul mentioned the Gentiles, the audience was again stirred up and behaving riotous (verses 22–23), so the tribune decides to remove Paul for further interrogation in the barracks, that is 'the examination of witnesses by torture' (verse 24), which was a routine practice in both Greek and Roman judicial systems.[11] At the last moment, Paul reveals a little more of his citizenship status (verse 25) that 'produces consternation and dismay among the soldiers and minor officials into whose hands he has fallen' (verses 26–29).[11] Verse 28
The claim of Paul to be 'free-born' here means that his citizenship status 'goes back at least to his father's generation, possibly earlier, to the period of the civil wars, when Roman generals granted citizenship to a number of individuals and associations in the Greek East who had supported their cause'.[11] The citizenship status of the tribune (whose name is Claudius Lysias; cf. Acts 23:26) corresponds to the record of 'the growing laxity of citizenship grants, which were widely reported to be freely available for money' during the reign of Claudius Caesar (Dio Cassius, 60. 17.5–6).[11] Paul to be brought before the Sanhedrin (verse 30)The tribune 'ordered' the Sanhedrin to meet, although only in an advisory capacity, to 'help him determine whether or not Paul had a case to answer in Jewish law'.[11] See alsoReferences
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