Acts 22:1-22:29 ~ Paul's Defense Testimony + PDF Discussion Guide

Paul stood accused of both desecrating the temple. Today we are going to consider Paul’s defense, which is his conversion testimony: how he came to believe in Jesus. It is common, when training a person how to give his salvation testimony, to organize it into three parts: his life before Christ, how he came to Christ, and his life changed after Christ. This is exactly how Paul presented his testimony to the crowd. It is good for every believer to spend time preparing his own salvation testimony. In fact, Paul’s testimony was so important that Luke presented three times, in detail, in Acts! From a literary perspective, Luke obviously considered it very important. It makes the point that Paul was divinely commissioned to take the Gospel to the Gentiles. This was an important truth since the church was initially made up of Jewish believers who were at first slow to accept Gentiles. Also, Paul was a prime witness of the resurrection, upon whose creditability as great deal rests. One of the strongest evidences for the truth of Christianity is Paul’s conversion.