How is Paul's conversion account in Acts 22 presented?
Acts 22 presents Paul's conversion as a first-person account, spoken by Paul many years after the Damascus experience, as he recounts it to a multitude of Jews. He describes being unable to see because of the glory of that light, being led into Damascus, and encountering Ananias, a devout, law-keeping Jewish believer.
Les explains that in Acts 22, Paul is speaking in the first person, many years after the Damascus experience, recounting his conversion to the multitude of Jews. He drops down to verse 11, where Paul says that when he could not see for the glory of that light, he was led by the hand of those with him and came into Damascus. Ananias is then introduced as a devout man according to the Word, a Jew. Les points out that Ananias was a believing but law-keeping Jew. No one had yet told Ananias he was not under the Law but under grace, and no one had told these Jewish believers to quit temple worship or stop legalism. They maintained their Judaism while also recognizing that Jesus was the Christ.
And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
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