King James Version
Acts 22:1 in the King James Version says “Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.” — study this verse from Acts chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.”
Acts 22:1 · KJV
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,)
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“unto”
G4314a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of,
“which I make now”
G3568"now" (as adverb of date, a transition or emphasis); also as noun or adjective present or immediate
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