American Standard Version
"And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith, "
— Acts 22:2, American Standard Version
“(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: 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,)”
Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.
And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:
and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.