Acts 22:3

I am a man a Jihudoya; and I was born in Tarsos of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly in the law of our fathers. And I was zealous for Aloha, even as all of you are also.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 when they heard that Hebrew he was speaking with them, the more they ceased; and he said to them,

4And this way I persecuted unto the death, while I bound and delivered to the house of the bound both men and women;

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Cross References

Luke 2:46And after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and questioning them.

Luke 10:39And she had a sister whose name was Mariam, and she came, sat at the feet of our Lord, and heard his words.

Acts 6:9And men arose from the congregation which was called Libertinu, Kyrainoyee, and Aleksandroyee, and from Cilicia, and from Asia, and disputed with Estephanos,

Acts 9:30And when the brethren knew, they brought him by night to Cesarea, and from thence sent him to Tarsos.

Acts 15:23AND they wrote an epistle by their hands, thus: The apostles and presbyters and brethren, to those who are in Antiokia and in Syria and in Cilicia, the brethren who are of the Gentiles; peace.

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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