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Acts 22:3 KJV
Acts · chapter 22 · verse 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.Acts 22:3 · King James Version
Acts 22:3 in context
1Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
2(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
3I 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.
4And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- accordingkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- GamalielgamaliēlGamaliel = " my recompenser is God" , a Pharisee and celebrated doctor of the…G1059 →
- CiliciakilikiaCilicia = " the land of Celix" , a maritime province in the southeast of Asia…G2791 →
- verilymentruly, certainly, surely, indeedG3303 →
- TarsustarsosTarsus = " a flat basket" , a major city in Cilicia and the birthplace and early…G5019 →
- taughtpaideuōto train children, to be instructed or taught or learn, to cause one to learn, to…G3811 →
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Paul here gives such an account of himself as might serve not only to satisfy the chief captain that he was not that Egyptian he took him to be, but the Jews also that he was not that enemy to their church and nation, to their law and temple, they took him to be, and that what he did in preaching Christ, and…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-21