When Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
Certain also of the chief of Asia which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not press into the common hall.
When divers waxed hard hearted, and believed not, but spake evil of the way of the Lord before the multitude: he departed from them, And severed the disciples away, And taught daily in the school of one called Tirannus.
Paul said: I am a man which am a iewe of Tharsus a city in Cicill, a citizen of no vile city, I beseech thee suffer me to licence,