From Saul To Paul: A Religious Conversion

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e spends his time in the city synagogues proclaiming Jesus. In Acts 22,1-16, the setting changes and takes place in Jerusalem. Paul is in a temple in Jerusalem until word of whom he is begins to spread around the city. The citizen’s anger begins to grow with this Jewish man who is preaching the way of Christianity. After a while, many of them gather at the temple and go to drag Paul out. Once they do so, they attempt to kill him. Their attempts are short lived and stopped by the arrival of the tribune and soldiers. Paul is then hauled off to the barracks by the tribune and the guards, but not before he addresses the people from the steps leading to the barracks.
Finally, in the third conversion of Paul, the setting shifts to the city of Caesarea, which is nearly nineteen hundred miles west of Jerusalem, on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea (Our World. 148). The story takes place there, because Paul appealed his trial in Jerusalem so that the Imperial Majesty would hear him. Since Paul had really done nothing to deserve imprisonment he was granted his wish. He was also unable to be beaten because he was a Roman citizen. After he was taken into custody and his flogging was ordered. After they timed him up to start the flogging he revealed to them that he had bought his Roman citizenship and it was not legal for an uncondemned citizen to be beaten. After being brought to Caesarea Paul was presented before King Agrippa in the audience hall in the city of Caesarea. There he told his story for the final time.
The narrative setting took place in a number of areas but each account of Paul’s conversion is fairly similar. Each story of his conversion has about the same setting, with some subtle differences. Each has a religious setting. The first being the occurrence with Jesus and Paul spending time in the synagogues. The second story has Paul in the temple. However, in the third, he is not in a religious place,...