Acts 22:20

²⁰And I was in complete agreement when your witness Stephen was killed. I stood by and kept the coats they took off when they stoned him.’

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