Acts 22:3

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Summary

I am verily 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 ye all are this day.

Jew

In tarsus

Acts 9:11

Acts 11:25

A city

At

Luke 2:46

Luke 8:35

Luke 10:39

Gamaliel

Acts 5:34

Taught

Was

General references

Acts 8:3

Bible References

Jew

Paul said, "I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, the citizen of a famous town. Pray let me speak to the people."

Then, I ask, has God repudiated his People? Never! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin!

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Israelites? so am I. Descended from Abraham? so am I.

I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,

In tarsus

And the Lord said to him, "Go away to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus called Saul. He is praying at this very moment,

So Barnabas went off to Tarsus to look for Saul,

A city

Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen,

They conveyed the following letter. "The apostles and the presbyters of the brotherhood to the brothers who belong to the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: greeting.

On reading the letter he asked what province he belonged to, and finding it was Cilicia

Then I went to the districts of Syria and of Cilicia.

At

Three days later they found him in the temple, seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.

Gamaliel

But a Pharisee in the Sanhedrin called Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law who was highly respected by all the people, got up and ordered the apostles to be removed for a few moments.

Taught

Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!"

They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,

Was

They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law.

I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.

These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

General references

but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.