American King James Version
"(And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he says,) "
— Acts 22:2, American King James Version
“(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)”
“And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith, ”
“When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,”
“(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,”
“(And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence.)”
“And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said,”
“(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)”
Men, brothers, and fathers, hear you my defense which I make now to you.
(And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he says,)
I am truly 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 you all are this day.
And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound to Jerusalem, for to be punished.