Then the King called the Gibeonites, and said unto them, (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but a (A)remnant of the Amorites, unto whom the children of Israel had sworn: but Saul sought to slay them for his zeal toward the children of Israel and Judah)

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[a]I am verily a man, which am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the [b]feet of Gamaliel, and instructed according to the perfect manner of the Law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 22:3 Paul making a short declaration of his former life, proveth both his vocation and doctrine to be of God.
  2. Acts 22:3 That is, his daily hearer: the reason of this speech is this: for that they which teach, sit commonly in the higher place speaking to their scholars which sit upon forms beneath: and therefore he saith, at the feet of Gamaliel.

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prison both men and women.

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Concerning zeal, I persecuted the Church: touching the righteousness which is in the Law, I was unrebukeable.

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