“(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)”
And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet. And he said — the crowd's increased silence signifies their acknowledgment that Paul is 'one of them,' linguistically and culturally. The vernacular language disarms hostility and opens space for hearing.
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