The Apostle Paul Addresses the Sanhedrin [Acts chapter 23, verses 1-12] by Minister Paul J. Bern This week as we continue the apostle Luke's narrative of the apostle Paul's arrival in Jerusalem after a years-long absence from that city, we find Paul in the custody of Roman troops. He has done his best to explain his actions, and particularly how he had found salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. But it was to no avail, and Paul found himself being forcibly removed from that place to keep him from being killed by the angry mob that surrounded him. It is now the following morning, and Paul finds himself being brought before the Sanhedrin to face charges of inciting a riot, and especially facing the ire of his former peers, since Paul was a former member of that Jewish governing body. So let's start this week's lesson there, beginning at verse 1 of chapter 23. “ 1) Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, 'My brothers, I ...
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