Acts 22: Paul's Defense to the Crowd

Speaking in Hebrew from the barracks steps, Paul tells how he persecuted the Way until the risen Jesus met him on the Damascus road and sent him to the Gentiles. The crowd erupts at that word, and Paul avoids flogging by revealing his Roman citizenship.

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According to Acts 22:12-13, how does Paul describe Ananias to this Jewish crowd, and what does Ananias do?

As one of the twelve apostles sent from Jerusalem, who came with orders to take Paul back for questioningAs a devoted follower of the law, spoken well of by the whole Jewish community in Damascus, who came and gave Paul back his eyesightAs a Roman centurion sympathetic to the believers, who came and prayed that Paul would be healedAs a stranger whose name Paul never learned, who met him in the street and led him to the synagogue