Acts 22:3
I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4And I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Cross References
2 Samuel 21:2And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and [yet] Saul sought to kill them in his zeal
Luke 2:46And it came to pass after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and questioning them.
Luke 10:39And she was sister to this woman called Mary, who also, having sat at Jesus' feet, was listening to his word.
Acts 6:9But some of those from the synagogue called Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up disputing with Stephen.
Acts 9:30But when the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.
Acts 15:23after writing by their hand these things:The apostles, and the elders, and the brothers, to those down in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, to the brothers of the Gentiles, greeting.
Matthew Henry on Acts 22:2-3
Paul's First Defence. 1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you. 2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) Paul had, in the last verse of the foregoing chapter , gained a great point, by commanding so profound a silence after so loud a clamour. Now here observe, I. With what an admirable composure and presence of mind he addresses himself to speak. Never was poor man set upon in a more tumultuous manner, nor with… Read the whole commentary →