| Previous Verse |
Acts 22:2 |
Next Verse |
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Note 1 at Ac 22:2: The fact that Paul spoke to the crowd in the Hebrew language made them even more attentive to what he had to say. The Hebrew language had come to be a matter of great national pride among the Jews. During the years of captivity, the Hebrew language had nearly been lost. Therefore, Paul was displaying his "Jewishness" and hoping to show them that he had not forsaken his Jewish roots, as the Asian Jews (Ac 21:27) were accusing him.
