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Acts 21:39

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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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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.


‘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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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?


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.’


He travelled through Syria  and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.


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


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





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