Acts 21:39

Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd

³⁸ Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins? ³⁹ But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me to speak to the people. ⁴⁰ And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

Important City

Cilicia

Jew

No

Paul

Tarsus

Acts 9:11

And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, he is of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

Acts 22:3

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye are all this day;

Acts 6:9

And there arose up certain of those of the synagogue called of freedmen, and of Cyrenians, and of Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Acts 9:30

And the brethren knowing it, brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Acts 15:23

having by their hand written thus: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among the nations at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

Acts 15:41

And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.

Acts 16:37

But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly uncondemned, us who are Romans, they have cast us into prison, and now they thrust us out secretly? no, indeed, but let them come themselves and bring us out.

Acts 21:37

But as he was about to be led into the fortress, Paul says to the chiliarch, Is it allowed me to say something to thee? And he said, Dost thou know Greek?

Acts 22:25-29

But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?

Acts 23:27

This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out of their hands, having learned that he was a Roman.

Acts 23:34

And having read it, and asked of what eparchy he was, and learned that he was of Cilicia,

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear;

1 Peter 4:15-16

Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;