Acts 21:39

Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd

³⁸ Are you not the Egyptian who before these days excited a sedition, and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men who were murderers? ³⁹ And Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of a not undistinguished city, I beg of you, permit me to speak to the people. ⁴⁰ And he giving him permission, Paul stood up on the steps, and motioned with his hand to the people; and when there was great silence, he spoke in the Hebrew language, and said,

Important City

Cilicia

Jew

No

Paul

Tarsus

Acts 9:11

And the Lord said to him, Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for [a man] by the name of Saul of Tarsus; for behold, he prays,

Acts 22:3

And he said, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, instructed at the feet of Gamaliel in the accurate interpretation of the law of our fathers, and am a zealous worshipper of God as you all are to-day;

Acts 6:9

But some members of the synagogue called that of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen,

Acts 9:30

but the brothers knowing it led him away to Caesarea and sent him to Tarsus.

Acts 15:23

writing by their hand, The apostles and elders and brothers, to the brothers in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, who are of the gentiles, greeting.

Acts 15:41

And he passed through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches.

Acts 16:37

But Paul said to him, They have beaten us publicly uncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they privately cast us out? No, indeed: but let them come themselves and conduct us out.

Acts 21:37

And being about to be carried into the fortress, Paul said to the chiliarch, May I have permission to speak to you? And he said, Do you understand Greek?

Acts 22:25-29

But when they extended him with cords, he said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man, a Roman, and uncondemned?

Acts 23:27

I went with the soldiery and rescued this man, when he was siezed by the Jews, and about to be killed by them, having learned that he is a Roman;

Acts 23:34

And having read, he asked of what province he was; and learning that he was of Cilicia,

1 Peter 3:15

and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,

1 Peter 4:15-16

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's affairs;