Acts 22:3

“I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactness of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all you are today.

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In The King James Version

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

In Context

2and they having heard that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more silent, and he says,

4And this Way I persecuted to death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2And the king calls for the Gibeonites and says to them—as for the Gibeonites, they [are] not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul seeks to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah—

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 also had a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word,

Acts 6:9and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, the [one] called Libertines (and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia), disputing with Stephen,

Acts 9:30and the brothers having known, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

Acts 15:23having written through their hand thus: “The apostles, and the elders, and the brothers, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brothers, who [are] of the nations, 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 →

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