The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

Paul is Seized in the Temple

The preseding council activity is rehearsed in Galatians 2:1-10 by Paul

When the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and has polluted this holy place. (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut. As they went about to kill him, tidings came to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left off the beating of Paul. Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. Some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
As Paul was being led into the castle, he said to the chief captain, May I speak to you? Who said, Can you speak Greek? Are you not an Egyptian, which before these days made an uproar, and lead out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? To this Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech you, allow me to speak to the people. Then he had gave him license, Paul standing on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand to the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, saying, Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense which I make now to you.

When they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he said, I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day. I persecuted those of the Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound back to Jerusalem, be punished. And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come near to Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. 

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? To this I answered, Who are You, LORD? And He said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute. They that were with me saw indeed the LIGHT, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of Him that spoke to me. And I said, What shall I do, (what do You require of me) LORD? The LORD replied to me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told you of all things which are appointed for you to do. 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. One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there, came to me, and stood, and said to me, Brother Saul, receive your sight. The same hour I looked up upon him. And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know His Will, and see the Just One, and should hear the voice of His mouth. For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. Now why do you wait? arise, and be baptized, to wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Here is what Paul says about the prior council meating which took place in Jerusalem with the elders of the Way, soon to be known as "Christians," as found in Galatians 2:1-10:

“Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. I went up by revelation, and communicated to them (the council composed of converts from Judaism who held to the customs, rites, rituals and habits of their fathers, Peter being the chief officer, which is why God could not send them to the gentile world round about them as His witneses) this gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation (look at Ecc. 10:1-2), lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage (those of Acts 20:30, 21:20-24, 23:12-14): To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the Truth of the Gospel (the promised New Covenant in the kingdom of heaven and of God which John the Baptist and Jesus both spoke of) might continue with you. But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it makes no matter to me: God accepts no man's person:) for they who seemed in conference (examination for the purpose of discussion and instruction) added nothing to me: But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed to me, as the circumcision was to Peter; (For He that wrought (was active in and through) effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to (active in) me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we go to the heathen, and they to the circumcision. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.” 

Returning to Acts 22:17 we find that Paul Receives his Commission.