Outnumbered

Traveling in a dried-out country
On a police detail with Caesar’s army
I met a strange Judean -- he made a disturbance
And I took my men 'cause the natives were restless
And I said
Do your job 'cause the man’s outnumbered
We’d better go and get up there
Can’t you see that they’ll tear him asunder
You better run — you better take others.
I rescued the man — it was Paul
He goes, Please good sir, we truly must talk
I said, Do you speak the right language?
He just smiled, he came from a Benjamite family
But he said
I come from a land far from here
With Greek and Romanesque culture
Can you please let them hear me once, sir?
I said, All right, and let him face the mob a while
Lysius — that is my name
And that Paul he had much to say
He said Christianity I’m defending
Although I once was its grandest enemy
But Jesus
Spoke to me with a voice like thunder
And He did show me I’d blundered
Can you help, can you help but wonder
Why did I run from everything I was
(Yes, people) Listenin' to him I wondered
If really Paul was outnumbered
'Cause if he’s right and Jesus is up there
He’s better off -- I’d rather take those odds
If you want the chapter number
Where we met Paul and went from there
In the Book of the Acts -- it’s somewhere
In 21 through 28 uh huh
(People) Listenin' to him I wondered
If really Paul was outnumbered
'Cause if he’s right and Jesus is up there
He’s better off — I’d rather take those odds
Listenin' to him I wondered
If really Paul was outnumbered