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Acts 22:2
And, when they heard that, in the Hebrew language, he had begun to address them, they kept the more quiet. And he saith—
Acts 22:2 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
Acts 22:2 in other translations
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more silent. Then Paul declared,
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
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In context
1 Brethren and fathers! Hear ye, the defence, which I now make unto you:—
2 And, when they heard that, in the Hebrew language, he had begun to address them, they kept the more quiet. And he saith—
3 I, am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but nurtured in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel,—trained after the strictness of our ancestral law; being jealous for God just as, all ye, are this day;
4 and, this way, I persecuted unto the death, binding and delivering up into prisons both men and women:—
5 as, even the High-priest, beareth me witness, and all the Eldership,—from whom, letters also, accepting to the brethren, unto Damascus, was I journeying, to bring them who were there bound unto Jerusalem, that they might be punished.
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