Aha! We are to
realise that there are three accounts of Paul’s conversion – Luke’s and two of
Paul’s. So we must consult Paul. How much more vivid is his account
in Acts 26 and there is also that in Acts 22.
…the people…., …the
people…., always, “the people.” Paul had to defend himself eventually, so
he told his story to “the people” in Chapter 22. Then he was required to
tell his story before Herod Agrippa, an Herodian king who ruled Judea as Caesar
allowed; a high priest of Israel who oversaw the temple at Jerusalem as
recorded in Acts 26.
Acts Chapter 10 has much evidence of Peter and Cornelius listening to God and
being guided in the steps that proved that the Christ is universal in its
teaching. Cornelius, being a centurion of an Italian band, was probably a
Roman. Peter and Cornelius listened, heard, and obeyed. The result
was that many Gentiles received the Holy Ghost; and this was before baptism
which was the usual procedure. Chapter 11 reiterates the story as Peter
defends his action, or rather the action of the Christ through the Holy Ghost,
in converting Gentiles; this before the apostles and brethren that were in
Judaea. And they were convinced.
Barnabas and Saul enter
the story as deliverers of “relief unto the brethren in Judaea.”
Joyce Voysey
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