Language is clean throughout. Luke once uses a mild word for the prison while teasing Paul.

A single shocked exclamation of God's name comes from a believer hearing of the arena deaths. All other uses of God's and Christ's names are prayer, worship and sincere testimony.

In a tavern scene a Roman friend jokes about the price of a woman, implying prostitution, and Mauritius declines. Dialogue also mentions orphans forced into temple prostitution and Christians being raped, but none of this is shown.

Aquila and Priscilla are a loving, prayerful couple who disagree over whether to stay in Rome and resolve it with grace. Mauritius and his wife quarrel bitterly over their dying daughter, and she speaks of loneliness during his campaigns, but she says she stayed faithful.

Christians are burned alive as human torches in the streets, Paul is flogged, a mother arrives covered in her murdered baby's blood, a boy is beaten to death and Stephen's stoning is shown in flashback. A prison raid leaves guards dead, and believers are led to their deaths in the arena, largely off screen. The violence is presented as evil persecution, never as exciting.

The mood is dark and oppressive throughout, with a dank prison, Paul's tormented nightmares and visions, grieving parents and the constant threat of execution. Younger children may find the burnings, the bloodied mother and a child's death distressing.

Mauritius meets a friend in a tavern where drink is served. Luke gives Paul a medicinal drink for pain.

Young believers led by Cassius plot violent revenge and storm the prison, but Paul, Luke, Priscilla and Aquila firmly reject this as contrary to Christ. Paul openly confesses the lies he spread and the persecution he led as Saul. Roman cruelty is shown as evil.

Roman characters offer sacrifices to false gods without result, and rumours call Paul a sorcerer. Paul also speaks of the devil taunting him. All of this is framed against the gospel, and no occult practice is shown.