Acts 22:2
1 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,)
3 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.
4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more silent. Then Paul declared,
- KJV
- (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
- WEB
- When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
- ASV
- And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
- DARBY
- And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,
- BLB
- And having heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he says,
- ÅB
- Da de hørte at han talte til dem på det hebraiske mål, holdt de seg enda mere stille. Han sier da:
- OTB
- Da de hørte ham tale til dem på hebraisk, ble de enda mer stille; og han sa:
- B1930
- Da de hørte at han talte til dem på det hebraiske mål, holdt de sig ennu mere stille. Han sier da:
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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,
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