Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Acts 22:1-21
Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE
Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE
CHAPTER XXII. _Paul, in his address to the people, gives an account of his_ _birth and education_, 1-3. _His prejudices against Christianity_, 4, 5. _And of his miraculous conversion, and call to...
MEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS - This defense was addressed to the Jews, and Paul commenced it with an expression of sincere respect for them. Stephen began his defense with the same form of address. See...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._ 2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship (Acts 22:22). What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the t...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in Pa...
"Men, brethren and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you." When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they gave him still more quietness. So he said, "I am a...
THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
MEN, &C. See note on Acts 1:11 with Acts 7:2. DEFENCE. Greek. _apologia._ Occurs eight times, here; Act 25:16. 1 Corinthians 9:3;...
Acts 22:1. St Paul's Defence 1. _Men, brethren, and fathers_ The Greek is amply rendered (with _Rev. Ver._) by "_Brethren and fathers_." See note on Acts 1:16. _hear ye my defence which I make now un...
_PAUL'S BIRTH, EDUCATION AND PREJUDICES ACTS 22:1-5:_ The term "men, brethren and fathers" was a term used often among the Jews in Paul's' day. He was happy to answer the charges of speaking against t...
ΠΑΤΈΡΕΣ _voc. pl. от_ ΠΑΤΉΡ (G3962) отец. Этот термин может указывать на присутствие членов синедриона (Schneider), ΆΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, слушать, с _gen._ ΑΠΟΛΟΓΊΑ (G6...
c. Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21. Acts 22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. Acts 22:2 And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew l...
XXII: 1, 2. (1) “_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defense, which I now make to you._ (2) _And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, they kept the greater quiet._” It is happ...
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you. The Defense (22:1-21) Men, brethren, and, fathers - more simply, 'Brethren and fathers,' "hear ye my defense which I make no...
40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
22:1 (d-1) Lit. 'Men brethren,' as ch. 1.16....
ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the desecration of the Temple. He answers all these...
FATHERS] i.e. the Sanhedrists and rabbis....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 22 PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21 V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what happened.’ V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
XXII. (1) MEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS. — The apparently triple division is really only two-fold — _Brethren and fathers._ (See Note on Acts 7:2.) It is noticeable that he begins his speech with the se...
ἄνδρες ἀ. καὶ π., _cf._ Acts 7:2. So St. Stephen had addressed a similar assembly, in which had been Saul of Tarsus, who was now charged with a like offence as had been laid to the charge of the first...
HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED Acts 22:1 What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied crowds who filled the co...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
Paul's First Defense Since his audience was primarily Jewish, Paul addressed them as "Brethren and fathers" (Acts 2:29; Acts 7:2; Acts 13:26). The defense he wants them to hear is much like verbal arg...
_Hear ye the account. [1] In the Greek, to the apology, or defence. (Witham) --- St. Paul, in this exordium, as also in Acts vii. 2. shews himself not ignorant of the art of pleading. He adds the name...
Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience, giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the p...
CONTENTS Paul addresses the Assembly, and relates the Particulars of his Conversion. He is interrupted by the Clamour of the Jews. He is again rescued by the Chief Captain, and conveyed into the Cast...
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense 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), I detain the R...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
_ST. PAUL’S DEFENCE_ ‘Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you., Acts 22:1 We recall the scene on the stairs mentioned in the last chapter. The excited crowd, the cru...
− Though we may guess by the beginning of this speech what was Paul’s drift, yet because he was interrupted, we know not certainly what he was about to say. The sum of that part which is refitted is t...
He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
MEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS,.... A common form of address used by the Jews; see Acts 7:2 but that the apostle should introduce his speech to these people in this manner, after they had treated him so i...
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence _which I make_ now unto you. Ver. 1. _Men, brethren, and fathers_] They that spake for themselves before the Areopagites in Athens, were required to do...
_Men, brethren, and fathers_ Of whatsoever age, rank, or circumstance of life you are; _hear ye my defence_ Which ye could not hear before for the tumult. _And when they heard that he spake in_ their...
The best defence which a man can make of himself and his conduct often is to give a plain statement of the providences of God of the reasons which satisfied his own mind, and which, in his view, ought...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:1 Concerning Paul's early life and persecution of the Church:...
AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN HIM LICENSE, PAUL STOOD ON THE STAIRS, AND BECKONED WITH THE HAND UNTO THE PEOPLE. AND WHEN THERE WAS MADE A GREAT SILENCE, HE SPAKE UNTO THEM IN THE HEBREW TONGUE, SAYING, Men,...
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
" BRETHREN AND FATHERS, HEAR MY DEFENSE BEFORE YOU NOW. " 1. Paul is addressing his fellow Jews - not brethren in Christ. 2. The Greek word for "defense" is apologia and is the root for our word, ap...
"Brethren and fathers" Stephen began his defense with the same words (Acts 7:2)....
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 who...
ACTS CHAPTER 23 ACTS 22:1 Paul declareth at large the manner of his conversion and call to the apostleship. ACTS 22:22 At the very mentioning of the Gentiles the people exclaim furiously against him:...
XXII: 1, 2. (1) “_ Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defense, which I now make to you._ (2) _And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, they kept the greater quiet._” It is hap...
Acts 22:1 Brethren G80 and G2532 fathers G3962 hear G191 (G5657) my G3450 defense G627 before G4314 you...
“Brethren and fathers, hear you the defence which I now make to you.” Paul opened his speech courteously, revealing in the terms of his address the Jewish respect for the elderly, and a claimed relat...
_Paul's Hebrew Speech to the Jewish Crowd in the Temple Court from the steps leading to the Antonia Tower, and the Tumult which succeeded it,_ 1-23. Acts 22:1. MEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS, HEAR YE MY D...
BRETHREN AND FATHERS (Ανδρες αδελφο κα πατερες) Men, brethren, and fathers. The very language used by Stephen (Acts 7:2) when arraigned before the Sanhedrin with Paul then present. Now Paul faces a...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith),_ Men...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his conversion. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain. CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because o...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. _Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
WHEN THEY HEARD HIM SPEAKING TO THEM IN HEBREW. The Aramaic or Chaldee dialect of Hebrew was the standard language which every Jew could speak and understand. Even though their "native language" (_see...
_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._ PAUL’S DEFENCE 1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 22:1. MEN, BRETHREN AND FATHERS.—Or, _brethren and fathers,_ the use of “men” in English being unnecessary. Compare the commencement of Stephen’s address to the Sanhedrim (Acts...
EXPOSITION ACTS 22:1 _Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my, A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE; ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts. Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
1 Corinthians 9:3; 1 Peter 3:15; 2 Corinthians 12:19; 2 Corinthians 7:11;...
Defence [α π ο λ ο γ ι α ς]. See on answer, 1 Peter 3:15....
Hear ye now my defence — Which they could not hear before for the tumult....
Here begins the apostle's apology, or defensative plea, which he makes for himself before the people at Jerusalem, who, in the foregoing chapter, had so injuriously treated him: In which apologetical...