Acts 22:25

²⁵As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn’t even been found guilty?”

In Acts 22, Paul stands on the steps of the Antonia Fortress in Jerusalem and delivers his defense to a hostile Jewish crowd. Speaking in Aramaic, he recounts his former life as a zealous Pharisee, his dramatic encounter with the risen Christ on the Damascus road, and his commission