Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

In tarsus

Gamaliel

General references

Bible References

Jew

Acts 21:39
But Paul said, I am a man, a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no small city. And I beseech you, allow me to speak to the people.
Romans 11:1
I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? I also! Are they Israelites? I also! Are they the seed of Abraham? I also!
Philippians 3:5
I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee;

In tarsus

Acts 9:11
And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
Acts 11:25
And Barnabas went out to Tarsus to seek Saul.

A city

Acts 6:9
Then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and from Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts 15:23
And they wrote these things by their hand: The apostles and elders and brothers send greeting to the brothers, from the nations in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
Acts 23:34
And when the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he understood that he was from Cilicia,
Galatians 1:21
Then I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,

At

Deuteronomy 33:3
Yea, He loved the people. All His saints are in Your hand, and they sat down at Your feet. Everyone shall receive of Your words.
2 Kings 4:38
And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a famine in the land. And the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, Set on the great pot and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Luke 2:46
And it happened that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.
Luke 8:35
And they went out to see what had been done. And they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had departed sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.
Luke 10:39
And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word.

Gamaliel

Acts 5:34
Then there stood up one in the sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law honored among all the people. And he commanded the apostles to be put outside a little space.

Taught

Acts 23:6
But when Paul saw that the one part were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the sanhedrin, Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of the dead.
Acts 26:5
who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Galatians 1:14
And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.
Philippians 3:5
I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee;

Was

Acts 21:20
And hearing, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe, and they are all zealous of the Law.
2 Samuel 21:2
And the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. And the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites. And the sons of Israel had sworn to them. And Saul sought to kill them in his zeal to the sons of Israel and Judah.
Romans 10:2
For I bear record to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Galatians 4:17
They are zealous for you, but not well. But they only desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them.
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.

General references

Leviticus 13:29
If a man or woman has in them a plague on the head or the beard,
Acts 8:3
But Saul ravaged the church, entering into every house. And dragging men and women, he delivered them up to prison.