ACTS 22:3 zhlwth.j u`pa,rcwn tou/ qeou/ Instead of zhlwth.j u`pa,rcwn tou/ qeou/, Western witnesses offer a variety of readings. The minuscule 614 and codex Toletanus of the Vulgate omit tou/ qeou/,...
Verse Acts 22:3. _I AM VERILY A MAN_ WHICH AM _A JEW_] A periphrasis for, _I_ _am really a Jew_: and his mentioning this adds weight to the conjecture in the preceding note. He shows that he could not...
BORN IN TARSUS - See the notes on Acts 9:11. BROUGHT UP IN THIS CITY - In Jerusalem, sent there for the advantage of more perfect instruction in the Law. AT THE FEET OF GAMALIEL - As a scholar or dis...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._ 2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship (Acts 22:22). What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the t...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in Pa...
THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
"Men, brethren and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you." When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they gave him still more quietness. So he said, "I am a...
VERILY. Texts omit. MAN. Greek. _aner_. App-123. IN CILICIA. of Cilicia. BROUGHT UP. Greek. _anatrepho._ Only here and Acts 7:20; Acts 7:21. GAMALIEL. See note on Acts 5:34. Only mentioned in
_I am verily a man which am a Jew_ The word rendered _verily_is omitted in the oldest MSS. The _Rev. Ver._has "_I am a Jew_," and this renders the original fully enough. Cp. note on verse I above. The...
Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
ἘΓΏ ΕἸΜΙ�, _I am a Jew_. These first words of the Apostle would correct many wrong impressions among the crowd, for we may be sure that many, beside the chief captain, had the notion that St Paul was...
_PAUL'S BIRTH, EDUCATION AND PREJUDICES ACTS 22:1-5:_ The term "men, brethren and fathers" was a term used often among the Jews in Paul's' day. He was happy to answer the charges of speaking against t...
ΈΓΏ (G1473) я, эмфатическое. ΊΟΥΔΑΪ́ΟΣ (G2453) иудей. Избыточный praed. подчеркивает характер, ΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G1080) вынашивать; _pass._ рождаться. О рождении Пав...
BROUGHT UP—AT THE FEET OF GAMALIEL,— Strabo tells us that it was customaryamong the inhabitants of Tarsus, for the young people, when they had gone through a course of education at Rome, to travel abr...
c. Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21. Acts 22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. Acts 22:2 And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew l...
3-16. (3) "_And he said, I myself am a Jew; born in Tarsus of Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the strictest doctrine of the law of our fathers, and...
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...
40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the desecration of the Temple. He answers all these...
GAMALIEL] see on Acts 5:34....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 22 PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21 V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what happened.’ V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
BROUGHT UP IN THIS CITY AT THE FEET OF GAMALIEL. — His education may have begun shortly after he became a child of the Law, at the age of twelve. (See Note on Luke 2:42.) He, too, had sat in the midst...
CHAPTER 1 THE TRAINING OF SAUL THE RABBI Acts 7:58; Acts 22:3 THE appearance of St. Paul upon the stage of Christian history marks a period of new development and of more enlarged activity. The most...
γεγενν. ἐν Τ., see above p. 202. ἀνατεθ. δὲ : although by birth a foreign Jew, yet brought up in Jerusalem, and so belonging to his hearers. It was important for the Apostle to emphasise this, as his...
HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED Acts 22:1 What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied crowds who filled the co...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
Paul's First Defense Since his audience was primarily Jewish, Paul addressed them as "Brethren and fathers" (Acts 2:29; Acts 7:2; Acts 13:26). The defense he wants them to hear is much like verbal arg...
(1) I am verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the (a) feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fat...
The scholars sat much below their master; and the nearest the master were such as had made the greatest proficiency. (Philo de Essenis)...
Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience, giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the p...
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...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 3._I am a Jew. _As all things were out of order at that day among the Jews, many rogues and vagabonds, to the end they might have some shroud for their wickedness, did falsely boast that they were J...
He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
I AM VERILY A MAN WHICH AM A JEW,.... By birth, a thorough genuine one; an Hebrew of the Hebrews, both by father and mother side, both parents being Jews, and so a true descendant from Abraham, Isaac,...
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, an...
_I am verily a Jew_, &c. This defence answers all that is objected, Acts 21:28. But he speaks closely and nervously, in a few words, because the time was short; _born in Tarsus, yet brought up in this...
TARSUS; chap Acts 21:39. THIS CITY; Jerusalem. GAMALIEL; a celebrated Jewish teacher....
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:1 Concerning Paul's early life and persecution of the Church:...
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...
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
" I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers ' LAW, AND WAS ZEALOUS TOWARD GOD AS YOU ALL ARE...
"I am Jew" To this crowd in Jerusalem who had heard that Paul spoke against the Law and the temple, Paul makes it clear that he is proud of his Jewish ancestry. "Born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought...
1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was who...
AT THE FEET; the apostle alludes unto the posture that the disciples of any rabbi, or teacher, in those times did use; the master sitting in some high or elevated place, did teach his scholars, who sa...
3-16. (3) "_ And he said, I myself am a Jew; born in Tarsus of Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the strictest doctrine of the law of our fathers, and...
Acts 22:3 I G1473 am G1510 (G5748) indeed G3303 Jew G435 G2453 born G1080 (G5772) in G1722
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you al...
Acts 22:3. I AM VERILY A MAN WHICH AM A JEW. He starts at once with a statement calculated to allay the suspicions with which many of those who were infuriated against him, without knowing any thing r...
I AM A JEW (Εγω ειμ ανηρ Ιουδαιος). Note use of Εγω for emphasis. Paul recounts his Jewish advantages or privileges with manifest pride as in Acts 26:4; 2 Corinthians 11:22; Galatians 1:14;...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense 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),_ Men...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his conversion. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain. CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because o...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. _Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
WHEN THEY HEARD HIM SPEAKING TO THEM IN HEBREW. The Aramaic or Chaldee dialect of Hebrew was the standard language which every Jew could speak and understand. Even though their "native language" (_see...
_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._ PAUL’S DEFENCE 1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
_And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue._ PAUL’S METHOD OF QUIETING THE MOB The Hebrew language was their dearest language. It touched them at the point of sympathy. Paul had a new ho...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 22:1. MEN, BRETHREN AND FATHERS.—Or, _brethren and fathers,_ the use of “men” in English being unnecessary. Compare the commencement of Stephen’s address to the Sanhedrim (Acts...
EXPOSITION ACTS 22:1 _Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my, A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE; ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts. Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
2 Corinthians 11:22; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Samuel 21:2; Acts 11:25; Act
At the feet. Referring to the Jewish custom of the pupils sitting on benches or on the floor, while the teacher occupied an elevated platform. Gamaliel. One of the seven Rabbis to whom the Jews gave t...
I am verily — This defence answers all that is objected, Acts 21:28. As there, so here also mention is made of the person of Paul, Acts 22:3, of the people and the law, Acts 22:3,...