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... 39 But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tarsus.htm
... OF ROMAN SOVEREIGNTY III. THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT 1. Imperial Authority 2. Three Classes of Citizens IV. ROMAN RELIGION 1. Deities 2. Religious Decay V. ROME AND THE JEWS ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... that, in accordance with Seleucid policy, this reorganization was accompanied by the enlargement of the citizen body, the new citizens in this case consisting probably of Jews and Argive Greeks. From ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kue.htm
... duties of their office well and honorably, consequently to the noblest, richest and most distinguished citizens of Athens. The Areopagus saw that the laws in force were observed and executed by the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/areopagus.htm
... 39 But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cilicia.htm
... the city and of advocating customs, the reception and practice of which were illegal for Roman citizens. The rabble of the market-place joined in the attack ( Acts 16:22 ), ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philippi.htm
... to great wealth and importance. Greater fame, however, came to it through its distinguished citizens. It was the home of Callimachus the poet, Carneacles the founder of the New Academy ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyrene.htm
... ., the city was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake, but so wealthy were its citizens that they rejected the proffered aid of Rome, and quickly rebuilt it at their own expense ...
https://bibleatlas.org/laodicea.htm
... which so frightened Tabnit that he betrayed the city to save his own life. But the citizens, learning of the treachery, first burned their fleet and then their houses, perishing with ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sidon_the_great.htm
... , and in later days, Romans, constituted the main elements of the population. The citizens were a vigorous, turbulent and pushing race, notorious for their commercial aptitude, the licentiousness ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syrian_antioch.htm
... . Their deserted camp was discovered by despairing lepers who carried the good news to the famished citizens of the plenty to be found there. Probably in the throat of the great western gateway ...
https://bibleatlas.org/harmon.htm
... these temples, there are traces of the walls, and the remains of houses of the citizens. The city was at first governed by its own kings, but became a part of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ellasar.htm
... Tiberius remitted the taxes of the people and rebuilt the city, and in his honor the citizens of that and of neighboring towns erected a large monument, but Sardis never recovered its former ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sardis.htm
... the circumstances alike indicate that they were mainly homogeneous, and that most of them were worthy citizens. Willis J. Beecher ADUL'LAM, cave of, formerly supposed to be that great cave ...
https://bibleatlas.org/adullam.htm
... LITERATURE. Smith, Voyage and Shipwreck of Paul; Ramsay, Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen, 320-30. On Crete in Greek and Roman times, consult e.g. Grote, Holm ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... , 385-404. On Paul's mission there, see the same author's Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen, 119, 178. Many inscriptions of the later Roman period are collected in Sterrett, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/derbe.htm
... made a Roman colonia, independent of the Roman governor of the province of Asia. Its citizens were then exempt from poll and land tax. During Byzantine times Troas was the seat of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/troas.htm
... . Their deserted camp was discovered by despairing lepers who carried the good news to the famished citizens of the plenty to be found there. Probably in the throat of the great western gateway ...
https://bibleatlas.org/samaria.htm
... are beaten with rods ( Acts 16:22 ) and appeal to their privileges as Roman citizens (16:37, 38) . At Thessalonica all is changed. We are here ...
https://bibleatlas.org/thessalonica.htm
... which so frightened Tabnit that he betrayed the city to save his own life. But the citizens, learning of the treachery, first burned their fleet and then their houses, perishing with ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sidon.htm
... Sennacherib advanced against him with 200,000 men, and Elulaeus fled to Cyprus. The citizens made a successful resistance and Sennacherib did not take Tyre, but it submitted to Esar-haddon, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tyre.htm
