"(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)" — Acts 22:2

Acts 22:2 · KJV

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

— Acts 22:2

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

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.

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,)

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Cross References

Acts 21:40

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto {them} in the Hebrew tongue, saying,