Acts 21:39 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³⁹ Paul said, ‘I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia,  a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ Paul answered, I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant or undistinguished city. I beg you, allow me to address the people.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ But Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee, give me leave to speak unto the people.

Common English Bible

³⁹ Paul replied, “I’m a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Please, let me speak to the people.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ But Paul said to him: "I am a man, indeed a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of a well-known city. So I petition you, permit me to speak to the people."

Acts 21:39 Cross References

Acts 15:23

They wrote: ‘From the apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers and sisters among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

Acts 15:41

He travelled through Syria  and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

Acts 16:37

But Paul said to them, ‘They beat us in public without a trial, although we are Roman citizens, and threw us in jail. And now are they going to send us away secretly? Certainly not! On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out.’

Acts 21:37

As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, ‘Am I allowed to say something to you? ’ He replied, ‘You know how to speak Greek?

Acts 22:3

He  continued, ‘I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel  according to the strictness of our ancestral law. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

Acts 23:27

When this man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I arrived with my troops and rescued him because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.

Acts 23:34

After he  read it, he asked what province he was from. When he learned he was from Cilicia,

Acts 6:9

Opposition arose, however, from some members of the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and they began to argue with Stephen.

Acts 9:11

‘Get up and go to the street called Straight,’ the Lord said to him, ‘to the house of Judas, and ask for a man from Tarsus   named Saul, since he is praying there.

Acts 9:30

When the brothers found out, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts regard  Christ  the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defence to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.