Verse 3

`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 9:11 : 11 and the Lord `saith' unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, `one' by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,
  • Acts 5:34 : 34 but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little,
  • Acts 26:5 : 5 knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;
  • Acts 21:20 : 20 and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,
  • Acts 21:39 : 39 And Paul said, `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.'
  • Phil 3:5-6 : 5 circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee! 6 according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!
  • Luke 10:39 : 39 and she had also a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word,
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!
  • Acts 23:6 : 6 and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.'
  • Acts 6:9 : 9 and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,
  • Deut 33:3 : 3 Also He `is' loving the peoples; All His holy ones `are' in thy hand, And they -- they sat down at thy foot, `Each' He lifteth up at thy words.
  • 2 Kgs 4:38 : 38 And Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine `is' in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he saith to his young man, `Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.'
  • Luke 2:46 : 46 And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them,
  • Luke 8:35 : 35 and they came forth to see what was come to pass, and they came unto Jesus, and found the man sitting, out of whom the demons had gone forth, clothed, and right-minded, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid;
  • 2 Sam 21:2 : 2 And the king calleth for the Gibeonites, and saith unto them -- as to the Gibeonites, they `are' not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul seeketh to smite them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah --
  • Acts 9:30 : 30 and the brethren having known, brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
  • Acts 11:25 : 25 And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul,
  • Acts 15:23 : 23 having written through their hand thus: `The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who `are' of the nations, greeting;
  • Acts 15:41 : 41 and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.
  • Rom 10:2-3 : 2 for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, 3 for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
  • Acts 23:34 : 34 And the governor having read `it', and inquired of what province he is, and understood that `he is' from Cilicia;
  • Gal 1:14 : 14 and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,
  • Gal 1:21 : 21 then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
  • Gal 4:17-18 : 17 they are zealous for you -- `yet' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous; 18 and `it is' good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;