An Hebrew of the Hebrews (Acts 22)

Acts chapter 22 opens with Paul's speech to the angry crowd from the last chapter. As mentioned there, he gives this speech in Hebrew (oddly, many other translations say "Aramaic" even though the Greek reads "Έβραΐδι" which would be pronounced "hebraidi" so what else could it be?), which causes the crowd to quiet down and listen. Paul tells of his Hebrew background, and quickly progresses to retelling the story from Acts chapter nine of his conversion on the road to Damascus with some slightly different details. I answered whether the men with Paul heard the voice in Acts chapter nine. When he finally mentions God sending him to the Gentiles, the crowd loses it again, pretty much going nuts and demanding that Paul be killed. (I answered whether the gospel should be preached everywhere in Acts chapter one.)

The captain, who doesn't speak Hebrew, takes Paul away and orders that he be scourged to find out what he said to rile up the crowd. Just as they're preparing to scourge him, Paul mentions that he's a Roman citizen, and all the Romans get flustered because, as I mentioned a few chapters back, there are rules about how you treat citizens, and they aren't following them. So they take off his chains and arrange for a meeting with the Sanhedrin.