August 31, 2010 – Acts 24:10 - 25:12

We just watched the movie “Invictus”. Nelso Mandela was in prison for 27 years. But it reminds me of Paul. It appears that Paul is being held, really because they don’t know what to do with him. There are accusations against him, but they can’t be proven. They can’t convict him of anything, yet they don’t want to release him because powerful people would get upset. It sounds like the definition of a political prisoner, which Mandela was. I don’t know much about Mandela, but it would appear he was arrested for standing up to the power, but then, not convicted of enough to really sentence him to anything. After reading a little bit, it appears he was a little more violant than Paul in trying to spread his message, but non the less, he was a political prisoner. Anyway, my thoughts were just about them not knowing what to do with Paul, so they leave him locked away, granted it sounds like a minimum security type place. This is placed by some to be around 58-60 AD. So we are roughly 25-30 years after Christ. And we now join Paul on his final journey to Rome.