King James Version
Acts 22:2 in the King James Version says “(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)” — study this verse from Acts chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)”
Acts 22:2 · 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.
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“to them”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
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