Acts Chapter 22 verse 2 Holy Bible
And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
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And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said,
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And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,
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(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
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When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
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and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Unto them in the Hebrew language for in the Hebrew tongue to them, A.V.; were the more quiet for kept the more silence, A.V. When they heard, etc. This trait is wonderfully true to nature, and exhibits also St. Paul's admirable tact and self-possession. It was strikingly in harmony with his addressing them as "brethren" that he should speak to them in their own mother tongue. There is a living reality in such touches which seems at once to refute Renan's suspicion that St. Luke invented this and other of St. Paul's speeches in the later chapters of the Acts. The full report of these later speeches is abundantly accounted for by the fact that through this time St. Luke was with St. Paul, and heard the speeches.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) They kept the more silence.--The opening words had done the work they were meant to do. One who spoke in Hebrew was not likely to blaspheme the sacred Hebrew books. What follows was conceived in the same spirit of conciliation.
