Tarsus
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....
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And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the street
which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas
for [one] called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,...
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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....
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[Which] when the brethren knew, they brought him down to
Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus....
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Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:...
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tar'-sus (Tarsos, ethnic Tarseus) :
1. Situation
2. Foundation Legends
3. Tarsus under Oriental Power
4. Tarsus under Greek Sway
5. Tarsus in the Roman Empire
6. The University
7. The Tarsian Constitution
8. Paul of Tarsus
9. Later History
LITERATURE
1. Situation:
The chief city of Cilicia, the southeastern portion of Asia
Minor. It lay on both b...
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(The capitol of Cilicia in Asia Minor)
-Paul's birthplace
Ac 9:11; 21:39; 22:3
-Paul sent to, from Jerusalem, to avoid assassination
Ac 9:30
-Paul brought from, by Barnabas
Ac 11:25,26...
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the chief town of Cilicia, "no mean city" in other respects,
but illustrious to all time as the birthplace and early
residence of the apostle Paul. Ac 9:11; 21:39; 22:3 Even in
the flourishing period of Greek history it was a city of some
considerable consequence. In the civil wars of Rome it took
Caesar's aide, sad on the occasion of a visit ...
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the chief city of Cilicia. It was distinguished for its wealth
and for its schools of learning, in which it rivalled,
nay,
excelled even Athens and Alexandria, and hence was
spoken of as
"no mean city." It was the native place of the Apostle
Paul
(Acts 21:39). It stood on the banks of the river
Cydnus, about
12 miles north of the Mediterra...
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