Acts 22:3
I 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 strict manner of the law of our fathers, and was zealous for God, as you all are this day.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept silent: and he said,
4And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Cross References
Luke 2:46And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Luke 10:39And she had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his words.
Acts 6:9Then there arose some from what is called the synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and disputed with Stephen.
Acts 9:30When the brethren learned of this, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Acts 15:23And they sent this letter with them; The brethren, both apostles and elders, send greetings to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in 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 →