Cilicia

And when we had put to sea from there we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds were contrary.

And when we had sailed over the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra a city of Lycia.

And there the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy and he put us on board.

When we had sailed slowly many days and arrived with difficulty off Sinaitis, the wind not permitting us to proceed, we sailed under the shelter of Crete off Salmon.

Among the deacons was a man named Stephen who For verse 8 tells us Stephen was full of grace and power, and was doing great wonders and signs among the people.

And then verse 9 says, Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the freed man, as it was called, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.

watch this, they could not withstand the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking.

And then they secretly instigated men who said, we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." Now Stephen was not speaking insulting or blasphemous words against Moses or God, not at all.

In what I am writing to you before God, I do not lie.

Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy." And they glorified God because of me.

A reading from the Psalms.

In what I am writing to you, before God I do not lie.

Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy." And they glorified God because of me.

A reading from Psalms.

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SECTION I INTRODUCTION LUCIAN in Greek Lucianus, was a Syrian, born about the year 120, at Samosata, where a bend of the Euphrates brings that river nearest to the borders of Cilicia, in Asia Minor.

He had in him, by nature, a quick flow of wit, with a bent towards Greek literature.

It was thought at home that he showed as a boy the artist's nature by his skill in making little waxen images.

God knows that what I am writing to you is completely true.

Later, I went to different places in Syria and Cilicia.

The Christians in the churches in Judea had never met me.

They had only heard people say this about me.

And in Acts chapter number 22 in verse number three, again, this is Paul giving his testimony.

In verse number three the Bible says, "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in the city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous towards God, as ye all are this day.

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering unto prisons both men and women.

As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I've received elders unto the brethren, And went to..." What's the next word? Damascus.