Acts 22:3

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

1770 John Worsley NT

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

2---(and when they heard that he spake to them in the Hebrew dialect, they the more readily kept silence, and he said,)

4And I persecuted those of this persuasion even unto death, binding and delivering into prisons 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, attending to them and asking them questions.

Luke 10:39And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the feet of Jesus, attending to his discourse.

Acts 6:9But there rose up some of the synagogue, which is called that of the libertines, and some of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia, and Asia, to dispute with Stephen:

Acts 9:30but when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

Acts 15:23and they wrote by their hand, as follows, The apostles and elders and brethren here to the Gentile brethren which are in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, send 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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