World English Bible
"When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,"
— Acts 22:2, World English 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 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,)”
"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
"I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.