(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
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Gill's Exposition
And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them,.... See Gill on Act 21:40.
they kept the more silence; it being their mother tongue, and which they best understood; and which the…
Adam Clarke
When they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue - He had probably been traduced by the Jews of Asia as a mere Gentile, distinguished only by his virulence against the Jewish religion; which…
Paul had, in the last verse of the foregoing chapter, gained a great point, by commanding so profound a silence after so loud a clamour. Now here observe,
I. With what an admirable composure and…
Cambridge Bible
And … Hebrew tongue The beckoning with the hand (Act 21:40) had procured silence enough for the Apostle's first words to be heard, and now they caught the sound of their own dialect.
they kept the…