Acts 22:2

Acts 22:2

1 “Brethren^a and fathers, hear my defense before you now.”

2 And when they heard that he spoke to them in the ^aHebrew language, they kept all the more silent. Then he said:

3 ^a“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city ^bat the feet of ^cGamaliel, taught ^daccording to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and ^ewas zealous toward God ^fas you all are today.

4 ^aI persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,

5 as also the high priest bears me witness, and ^aall the council of the elders, ^bfrom whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus ^cto bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.

6 “Now ^ait happened, as I journeyed and came near Damascus at about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me.

7 And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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PAUL'S DEFENSE FROM THE STAIRS OF THE FORTRESS—THE RAGE OF THE AUDIENCE BURSTING FORTH, THE COMMANDANT HAS HIM BROUGHT INTO THE FORT TO BE EXAMINED BY SCOURGING, BUT LEARNING THAT HE IS A ROMAN, HE ORDERS HIS RELEASE AND COMMANDS THE SAMHEDRIM TO TRY HIM. (Acts 22:1-30)

when they heard . . . the Hebrew tongue—(See on Acts 21:40).

they kept the more silence—They could have understood him in Greek, and doubtless fully expected the renegade to address them in that language, but the sound of their holy mother tongue awed them into deeper silence.

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