Acts 22:2

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet. Then Paul declared,

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

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

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ἀκούσαντες akousantes Having heard G191 δὲ de then G1161 ὅτι hoti that G3754 τῇ tēa in the G3588 Ἑβραΐδι Hebraidi Hebrew G1446 διαλέκτῳ dialektō language G1258 προσεφώνει prosephōnei he was addressing G4377 αὐτοῖς autois them G846 μᾶλλον mallon even more G3123 παρέσχον pareschon they became G3930 ἡσυχίαν.¶ hēsuchian quiet G2271 Καὶ Kai And G2532 φησίν phēsin he says G5346

The early church

"And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence." Do you observe how the using the same tongue subdued them? In fact, they had a sort of awe for that language.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.