The Defense Nobody Wanted to Hear.
Acts 22 — The defense that went perfectly until one word ruined everything
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The crowd listened through Paul's entire conversion story but exploded the instant he mentioned Gentiles — inclusion, not theology, was the line they couldn't cross.
📢 Chapter 22 — The Defense Nobody Wanted to Hear 🎤
The mob was screaming. Roman soldiers had just dragged off the steps, and the crowd was so violent that the soldiers literally had to carry him above their heads to get him to safety. He'd been beaten. The whole city was in chaos. And right at the top of the barracks staircase, Paul did something nobody expected — he asked to speak.