Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Why did it matter that Paul was a Roman citizen? What was so significant about that? I mean,

surely citizens got in trouble or broke laws all the time and had to face the consequences for their

actions. Why was the reality that Paul was a Roman citizen the turning point in today's chapter?

On October 4th of 2014, a podcast called Serial was released. Now, I'm not recommending it to you,

but you may have observed its mention in a lot of news headlines in the last few weeks as the first season of the podcast covered this story.

The story was about a man who was tried for the murder of his high school ex-girlfriend back in 1999.

And the gist of this story was that it didn't seem like there was enough compelling evidence for him to have been convicted some 20-plus years ago.

That's what the podcast was about.

Just this woman who was curious and investigated the story.

And in recent weeks, the case went back to court, and Adnan, the man who had been behind bars for the last 20 years,

was vindicated. He was released from prison as new DNA tests proved him innocent. Adnan was

released from prison after 22 years behind bars because the court found that he could not be

proven guilty. The court couldn't prove him guilty.

So on October 11th of this year, he went home a free man. But how crazy would it have been if the court

had sent him back to prison after these proceedings? That would defeat the purpose of prison. Prison is intended to be the

consequence for the guilty, not the innocent. Now, I don't know much about the specifics of this story,

but high level, it seems like a huge mistake was made 20 years ago. The court had ruled that an

innocent man was actually guilty, and he'd been locked up for over 20 years ago. The court had ruled that an innocent man was actually guilty,

and he'd been locked up for over 20 years. Mistakenly, it was a mistake. And in a similar way,

in today's chapter, the Centurion didn't want to make that mistake. He didn't want to unfairly punish

Paul. In chapter 22, starting in verse 22,

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