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| Acts 22:1 - 8 |  |
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| Ac 22 | Ac 22 - (38% difference) | - 22:1 Variant Word Count: 6
- "Brethren R1340 and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you."
| - 22:1 Variant Word Count: 8 (57%)
- "Brothers and fathers! Listen to me as I make my defense before you now!"
| - 22:2 Variant Word Count: 9
- And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew R1341 F498 dialect, they became even more quiet; and he said,
| - 22:2 Variant Word Count: 7 (43%)
- When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they settled down more; so he continued:
| - 22:3 Variant Word Count: 9
- "I R1342 am a R1343 Jew, born in Tarsus R1344 of Cilicia, R1345 but brought up in this city, educated under F499 Gamaliel, R1346 strictly R1347 F500 according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you R1348 all are today.
| - 22:3 Variant Word Count: 14 (32%)
- "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city and trained at the feet of Gamli'el in every detail of the Torah of our forefathers. I was a zealot for God, as all of you are today.
| - 22:4 Variant Word Count: 4
- "I R1349 persecuted this Way R1350 to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,
| - 22:4 Variant Word Count: 7 (36%)
- I persecuted to death the followers of this Way, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.
| - 22:5 Variant Word Count: 17
- as also the R1351 high priest and all the R1352 Council of the elders can F501 testify. From them I also received R1353 letters to the R1354 brethren, and started off for Damascus R1353 in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as F502 prisoners to be punished.
| - 22:5 Variant Word Count: 24 (51%)
- The cohen hagadol and the whole Sanhedrin can also testify to this. Indeed, after receiving letters from them to their colleagues in Dammesek, I was on my way there in order to arrest the ones in that city too and bring them back to Yerushalayim for punishment.
| - 22:6 Variant Word Count: 7
- "But R1355 it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about noontime, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me,
| - 22:6 Variant Word Count: 5 (26%)
- "As I was traveling and approaching Dammesek, around noon, suddenly a brilliant light from heaven flashed all around me!
| - 22:7 Variant Word Count: 2
- and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, `Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?'
| - 22:7 Variant Word Count: 4 (20%)
- I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Sha'ul! Sha'ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?'
| - 22:8 Variant Word Count: 5
- "And I answered, `Who are You, Lord?' And He said to me, `I am Jesus R1356 the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.'
| - 22:8 Variant Word Count: 7 (35%)
- I answered, 'Sir, who are you?' 'I am Yeshua from Natzeret,' he said to me, 'and you are persecuting me!'
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FOOTNOTES:
F498 I.e. Jewish Aramaic
F499 Lit at the feet of
F500 Lit according to the strictness of the ancestral law
F501 Lit testifies for me
F502 Lit having been bound
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CROSSREFS:
R1340 Acts 7:2
R1341 Acts 21:40
R1342 Acts 9:1-22; 22:3-16;
R1343 Acts 21:39
R1344 Acts 9:11
R1345 Acts 6:9
R1346 Acts 5:34
R1347 Acts 23:6; 26:5; Philippians 3:6
R1348 Acts 21:20
R1349 Acts 8:3; 22:19f;
R1350 Acts 9:2
R1351 Acts 9:1
R1352 Luke 22:66; Acts 5:21; 1 Timothy 4:14
R1353 Acts 9:2
R1354 Acts 2:29; 3:17; 13:26; 23:1; 28:17,21; Romans 9:3
R1355 Acts 22:6-11: {Acts 9:3-8; 26:12-18}
R1356 Acts 26:9
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