Acts 22:2
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New International Version (©1984)
When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet. Then Paul said:

New Living Translation (©2007)
When they heard him speaking in their own language, the silence was even greater.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he said:

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he said,

International Standard Version (©2008)
When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued:

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When the mob heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet. Then Paul continued,

King James Bible
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

American King James Version
(And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he said,)

American Standard Version
And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,

Bible in Basic English
And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said,

Douay-Rheims Bible
(And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence.)

Darby Bible Translation
And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,

English Revised Version
And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,

Webster's Bible Translation
(And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

Weymouth New Testament
And on hearing him address them in Hebrew, they kept all the more quiet; and he said,

World English Bible
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

Young's Literal Translation
and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --

Geneva Study Bible

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

People's New Testament

22:2 Spake in the Hebrew tongue to them. The tongue called the Hebrew, a dialect of the ancient Hebrew, and distinguished from it by the name Aramaic. It was the common language of Judea in the time of Christ. It would be understood by all Paul's Jewish hearers, while many could not understand Greek.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. when they heard . the Hebrew tongue-(See on [2090]Ac 21:40).

they kept the more silence-They could have understood him in Greek, and doubtless fully expected the renegade to address them in that language, but the sound of their holy mother tongue awed them into deeper silence.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was wholly the act of God. Condemned sinners are struck blind by the power of darkness, and it is a lasting blindness, like that of the unbelieving Jews. Convinced sinners are struck blind as Paul was, not by darkness, but by light. They are for a time brought to be at a loss within themselves, but it is in order to their being enlightened. A simple relation of the Lord's dealings with us, in bringing us, from opposing, to profess and promote his gospel, when delivered in a right spirit and manner, will sometimes make more impression that laboured speeches, even though it amounts not to the full proof of the truth, such as was shown in the change wrought in the apostle.


Acts 21:40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, motioned to the people with his hand; and when there was a great hush, he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, saying, (NASB ©1995)

Address Addressed Addressing Aramaic Dialect Heard Hearing Hebrew Kept Language Paul Quiet Silence Speak Speaking Talking Tongue


(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

in. See on 21:40

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