Paul Calvert tells Sami's story, a young Palestinian from Bethlehem

Another beating struck his body.

"Who were the ringleaders?" repeated the Israeli soldiers

But Sami couldn't answer the question, he didn't know and also, everyone wears scarves to cover their faces so mostly no one knows anyway.

All this interrogation was getting nowhere; the soldiers thought they would try another form of punishment.

They strapped Sami into an electric chair and shocked him.

"I don't know, I don't know" repeated Sami

An electric shock raced through his body leaving Sami with extreme pain, it also completely zapped all his energy.

The soldiers began to believe that Sami was telling the truth so they took him from the electric chair and put him back into his cell. By this time Sami was very weak and blood was covering his body.

He sat in the prison cell with his fellow inmates and cried to God.

"Why me" he asked, "God what are you doing?"

Sami began to read his Bible, the words inside became alive and spoke to his crushed spirit.
God did love him, he had an answer for his life, and he had a purpose and a plan.

Sami realised that the little baby that was born in his city 2000 years earlier was his Saviour. Now Sami wasn't just a religious person he had a relationship with his Lord and Creator.

Over the days that Sami was in jail he began to read the Bible out loud, he comforted the other cell mates and they too became believers in Jesus, one of those men is a Pastor today.

Eventually Sami was released, no charges were made against him...he was innocent of any crime but guilty of being a sinner but now he was forgiven.