Acts 22:3 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.

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ASV

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts (1107)

With such a beginning he paves the way for his speech: "I," he says, "am a Jew." To hear this was most pleasant of all for them. But lest they again think that he is a Jew by nationality and not by faith, he adds: …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Unsanctified learning made his bonds strong, and furnished him with numerous arguments against the Gospel. Yet when the grace of God had changed his heart, and turned his accomplishments into another channel, he was the fitter instrument to serve God's wise and merciful purposes, in the defense and propagation of Christianity.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Born in Tarsus - See the notes on Act 9:11. Brought up in this city - In Jerusalem, sent there for the advantage of more perfect instruction in the Law. At the feet of Gamaliel - As a scholar or disciple of Gamaliel. The phrase to sit at the feet of one is expressive of the condition of a disciple or learner. Compare Deu 33:3; Luk 10:39. It is probable that the expression arose from the fact that the learners occupied a lower place or seat than the teacher.

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Original language & word study

34 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐγώ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
εἰμι	eimi	am	G1510 →
ἀνὴρ	anēr	a man	G435 →
Ἰουδαῖος	Ioudaios	Jewish	G2453 →
γεγεννημένος	gegennēmenos	born	G1080 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
Ταρσῷ	Tarsō	Tarsus	G5019 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
Κιλικίας,	Kilikias	of Cilicia,	G2791 →
ἀνατεθραμμένος	anatethrammenos	brought up	G397 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
πόλει	polei	city	G4172 →
ταύτῃ,	tautē	this	G3778 →
παρὰ	para	at	G3844 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
πόδας	podas	feet	G4228 →
Γαμαλιὴλ	Gamaliēl	of Gamaliel	G1059 →
πεπαιδευμένος	pepaideumenos	instructed	G3811 →
κατὰ	kata	according to [the]	G2596 →
ἀκρίβειαν	akribeian	exactness	G195 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
πατρῴου	patrōou	of our Fathers	G3971 →
νόμου,	nomou	law,	G3551 →
ζηλωτὴς	zēlōtēs	a zealous one	G2207 →
ὑπάρχων	huparchōn	being	G5225 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	for God	G2316 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
ὑμεῖς	humeis	you yourselves	G4771 →
ἐστε	este	are	G1510 →
σήμερον,	sēmeron	this day,	G4594 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 9:11
“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
leads to
- Acts 9:30
  When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
- Acts 21:39
  But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
- Acts 11:25
  Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,
- Luke 11:9–10
  So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7–8
  Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Through
Acts 21:39
But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
leads to
- Acts 9:11
  “Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
Through
Acts 26:5
They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
leads to
- Acts 23:6
  Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in…
Through
Acts 5:34
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.
leads to
- Luke 2:46
  Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.