Acts 22:3

I am a man who am a Jew; and I was born in Tarsus 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 God, as ye also all are.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 perceived that he addressed them in Hebrew, they were the more quiet: and he said to them:

4And I persecuted this way, even to death; for I bound, and delivered up to prison, 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 teachers, and listening to them, and asking them questions.

Luke 10:39And she had a sister whose name, was Mary: and she came and seated herself at the feet of our Lord, and listened to his discourses.

Acts 6:9And there rose up some of the synagogue which is called that of the freed men, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and persons from Cilicia and from Asia; and they disputed with Stephen.

Acts 9:30and when the brethren knew it, they conducted him by night to Caesarea, and from there they sent him to Tarsus.

Acts 15:23And they wrote a letter by them, thus: The legates and Elders and brethren, to them that are in Antioch, and in Syria, and in Cilicia, brethren who are from the Gentiles, 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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