40 After receiving the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned(A) to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic[a]:(B) 22 “Brothers and fathers,(C) listen now to my defense.”

When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic,(D) they became very quiet.

Then Paul said: “I am a Jew,(E) born in Tarsus(F) of Cilicia,(G) but brought up in this city. I studied under(H) Gamaliel(I) and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors.(J) I was just as zealous(K) for God as any of you are today.

Footnotes

  1. Acts 21:40 Or possibly Hebrew; also in 22:2

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