1. silent, he said to them in Aramaic:
1. ‘Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defence.’
2. When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.Then Paul said:
3. ‘I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.