Acts 22:3

I am a man a Jew, born at Tarsus of Cilicia, nourished and in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel [or nourished forsooth in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel], taught by the truth of (our) fathers’ law, a lover [or a follower] of the law (or an ardent follower of the Law), as also ye all be today.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 some heard that in (the) Hebrew tongue he spake to them, they gave the more silence [or they gave more silence]. And he said,

4And I pursued this way till to the death, binding [together] and betaking into holds men and women, (And I persecuted the followers of this way unto the death, taking them captive, and delivering them to prison, yea, both men and women,)

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2Therefore when [the] Gibeonites were called, the king said to them; soothly Gibeonites be not of the sons of Israel, but they be the relics of Amorites; and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, that they should not slay them, and Saul would smite them for (his) fervent love, as for the sons of Israel and of Judah; (And so when the Gibeonites were called, the king said to them; now the Gibeonites be not Israelites, but they be the remnants of the Amorites; and the Israelites had sworn to them, that they would not kill them, but Saul did strike many of them down in his fervent love for the people of Israel and of Judah;)

Luke 2:46And it befell, that after the third day they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the doctors, (or the teachers of the Law), hearing them and asking them.

Luke 10:39And to this was a sister, Mary by name, which also sat beside the feet of the Lord, and heard his word (s).

Acts 6:9But some rose (up) of (or from) the synagogue, that was called of Libertines, and Cyrenians, and of men of Alexandria, and of them that were of Cilicia and of Asia, and disputed with Stephen.

Acts 9:30Which thing when the brethren had known, they led him by night to Caesarea, and let him go to Tarsus.

Acts 15:23and wrote by the hands of them, Apostles and elder brethren to them that be at Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren of heathen men (or to the Gentile brothers), greeting (s).

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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