The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to
speak unto the people.
ACT 21:40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs,
and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a
great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
ACT 22:1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make
now unto you.
ACT 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to
them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
ACT 22:3 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
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