Christians he had tortured, now stood with arms outstretched announcing, “I’m here to testify to you that Jesus is the Messiah, God’s Son.” And the people who heard it were amazed. The Greek text uses the term from which we get the word “ecstatic.” They responded with nothing short of ecstatic astonishment at the swift reversal in the man’s life. Imagine sitting in the synagogue. In front of you, preaching Jesus as the Messiah, is the very man responsible for condemning innocent Christians to death. Others