"Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence {which I make} now unto you." — Acts 22:1

Acts 22:1 · KJV

“Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence {which I make} now unto you.”

— Acts 22:1

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

Acts 22 — Context

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence {which I make} now unto you.

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

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.

Cross References

Acts 7:2

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Acts 23:6

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men {and} brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Acts 23:1

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men {and} brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Acts 28:17

And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men {and} brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

2 Timothy 4:16

At my first answer no man stood with me, but all {men} forsook me: {I pray God} that it may not be laid to their charge.

Acts 13:26

Men {and} brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

Philippians 1:17

But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

Acts 25:8

While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.