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Cilicia

«Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; / And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: / But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Cilicia, Judaea, regions
«Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brethren: / And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.»
«(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) / I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Cilicia, Gamaliel, Hebrew, tarsus, zealous
«And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? / Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? / 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.»
«And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: churches, Cilicia, confirming
«And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.»
«Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.»
«And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia; / I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: accuser, accusers, Cilicia, hall, Herod