Acts 22:3
And he says: I am a Jew, born indeed in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel, according to the strictness of the law of the fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
2And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence.
4And I persecuted this Way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Cross References
Luke 2:46And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Luke 10:39And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus, and heard his word.
Acts 6:9And there arose certain ones of the synagogue so called of the Freedmen[6:9], and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts 9:30And the brethren, learning it, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Acts 15:23And they wrote by them thus: The apostles and the elders and the brethren, to the brethren from the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, 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 →