⁹ Opposition arose, however, from some members of the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and they began to argue with Stephen.

³⁹ Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia,^(A) a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”

Appeal to Caesar

25 Three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.^(A)