1. See the box “Gamaliel —Esteemed Among the Rabbis.”

2. What about the training Paul received from Gamaliel?

3. 12, 13. (a) What advice did Gamaliel give his colleagues, and what did they do?

4. (22:1-30) He identified himself as a Jew instructed by highly respected Gamaliel.

5. Gamaliel, an expert in the Law, stood up and warned his colleagues not to act hastily.

6. Then, significantly, Gamaliel added: “Otherwise, you may perhaps be found fighters actually against God.” —Acts 5:34, 38, 39.

7. After the destruction of the temple, Gamaliel’s grandson Gamaliel II restored the authority of the Sanhedrin, moving it to Yavneh.

8. 5:34-39 —How could Luke know what Gamaliel had said in a closed session of the Sanhedrin?

9. He was educated at the feet of Gamaliel, a well-known and highly esteemed teacher of the Pharisaic tradition.

10. The Mishnah says: “When Rabban Gamaliel the Elder died, the glory of the Law ceased and purity and abstinence died.”

11. After a warning from the Law teacher Gamaliel, the leaders beat the apostles, ordered them to stop preaching, and released them.

12. (Ac 18:3) But, at Jerusalem, he received instruction from the learned Pharisee Gamaliel, suggesting that Paul was from a prominent family.

13. Concerning him the Mishnah (Sotah 9:15) says: “When Rabban Gamaliel the Elder died, the glory of the Law ceased and purity and abstinence died.”

14. It is known that Gamaliel, the law teacher mentioned at Acts 5:34, sent letters to Babylon and other parts of the world.

15. (Acts 22:3) Though Saul’s teacher Gamaliel was evidently somewhat broad-minded, high priest Caiaphas, with whom Saul came to be associated, proved to be fanatic.