Acts 22 CEB

Paul gives a speech about his encounter with Jesus and his call to speak to the gentiles. This really really really makes the Jewish people mad. I wonder why it makes them mad? It’s interesting. How terms mean different things to the ages. A gentle is something that I read of as myself, I think of gentiles as good people like me. Why would the jews not like them? All I have to think about is today to understand how big of a deal. These terms are. I just have to insert the terms of today. Gentiles is just a Bible word. No one uses that word, and every day life that I’ve ever heard. But there is a term today for people who are not jews. You could use the word Palestinian. You could also use the word HAMAS. You could also insert some people like Osama. If we read it into their own history and read that Paul has been sent by God to the very enemies that have been destructive to them. The Roman people, people who have abused in most treated and tortured and mutilated them. We begin to understand why the people would be so furious. We also have in this chapter Paul claiming his Roman citizenship. Very interesting.