Acts 22:3

I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed accurately in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day:

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

2Then when they heard that he spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence: and he said,

4so much so that I persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women.

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Cross References

Luke 2:46And it came to pass after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.

Luke 10:39And she had a sister called Mary, who sitting down also at the feet of Jesus, hearkened to his discourse.

Acts 6:9Then rose up certain men of the synagogue of the freed-men, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Acts 9:30Then the brethren, when they knew it brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

Acts 15:23writing a letter by their hand, in these words: The apostles and presbyters and the brethren, to the brethren from among the Gentiles which are at Antioch, and in 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 →

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