Quotes About Cilicia

belonged to the respectable class of society, but must have been poor; for he depended for support on a trade which he learned in accordance with rabbinical custom; it was the trade of tent-making, very common in Cilicia, and not profitable except in large cities.

I [Paul] am… a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

Tarsus, a noble city in Cilicia, ten miles inland on the river Cydnus in the southeast corner of modern Turkey

and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”

The governor read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,

And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.

Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.