Acts 22:3
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel. I was instructed according to the strict ways of the law of our fathers. I am zealous for God, just as all of you are today.
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2When the crowd heard Paul speak to them in the Hebrew language, they became quiet. He said,
4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding up and delivering them to prison both men and women,
Cross References
2 Samuel 21:2Now the Gibeonites were not from the people of Israel; they were from what remained of the Amorites. The people of Israel had sworn not to kill them, but Saul tried to kill them all anyway in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.
Luke 2:46It came about that after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Luke 10:39She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and heard his word.
Acts 6:9But there arose some people who belonged to the synagogue called the synagogue of the Freedmen, of the Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia. These people were debating with Stephen.
Acts 9:30When the brothers learned of this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
Acts 15:23They wrote this: “From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings!
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 →