Acts 22:3
I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, hut brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel in the strictness of the Law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2And on hearing him speak to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence. And he saith:
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 listening to them and asking them questions.
Luke 10:39And she had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the feet of the Lord, and listened to his word.
Acts 6:9But some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Freedmen, and of the Cyrenaeans and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen;
Acts 9:30But the brethren obtaining knowledge of it, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Acts 15:23And they wrote by them, “The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from the gentiles in 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 →