But some of those who belonged to the socalled synagogue of the Freedmen, and of the Cyrenaeans and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen;

They therefore being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, came down to Seleucia, and from thence sailed to Cyprus.

And they wrote by them, "The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from the gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus, a citizen of no mean city of Cilicia; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people.

I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, hut brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel in the strictness of the Law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.

And having read the letter, he asked of what province he was; and when he understood that he was of Cilicia,

And having sailed over the sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often in many things proved to be zealous, but now much more zealous through the great confidence which he hath in you.

and made progress in Judaism beyond many of the same age with me in my nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

They show a zeal for you, but not in honesty; yea, they wish to exclude you, that ye may be zealous for them.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people to be his own, zealous in good works.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.