NET Bible
"(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,"
— Acts 22:2, NET Bible
“(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,”
“(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,)”
Paul’s Defense“Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense that I now make to you.”
(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.
I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,
as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to make arrests there and bring the prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.