After the governor read the letter, he asked what province Paul was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,
When Pilate heard mention of Galilee, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.
And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I beg yoʋ, let me speak to the people.”
Three days after arriving in the province, Festus went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,
But some men from the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), along with some of the Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some men from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and began to argue with Stephen.