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Acts 22:1-4

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

1. Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence [which I make] now unto you. 2. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) 3. 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. 4. And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Acts 22:1-4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Acts 22:1

Theological / Devotional

Brethren, and fathers. A courteous form of address (see on chs. 1:16; 7:2). Paul purposed to conciliate the turbulent crowd.

Defence. Gr. apologia, a speech made in defense against a charge.

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