Catholic Public Domain Version
"And when they heard him speaking to them in the Hebrew language, they offered a greater silence. "
— Acts 22:2, Catholic Public Domain 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,)”
“Noble brothers and fathers, listen to the explanation that I now give to you.”
And when they heard him speaking to them in the Hebrew language, they offered a greater silence.
And he said: “I am a Jewish man, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but raised in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, just as all of you also are to this day.
I persecuted this Way, even unto death, binding and delivering into custody both men and women,
just as the high priest and all those greater by birth bear witness to me. Having received letters from them to the brothers, I journeyed to Damascus, so that I might lead them bound from there to Jerusalem, so that they might be punished.