Acts 22:3
"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2When they heard him speaking in Hebrew they became the more quiet.
Cross References
Luke 2:46On the third day they found him sitting in the Temple, among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking questions.
Luke 10:39She had a sister named Mary, who after seating herself at the Lord’s feet was listening to his teaching.
Acts 6:9But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,
Acts 9:30When they learned this the brothers took him down to Caesarea, and then sent him forth to Tarsus.
Acts 15:23They took with them the following letter. "The apostles and older brothers send greeting to the Gentile Brotherhood throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia;
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 →