Acts 23:34

³² The next day they returned to the barracks and let the horsemen go on with him.

³³ When the horsemen arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and presented Paul to him.

The governor read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,

³⁵ he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: The governor read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,
KJV: And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
WEB: When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
ASV: And when he had read it, he asked of what province he was; and when he understood that he was of Cilicia,
DARBY: And having read [it], and asked of what eparchy he was, and learned that [he was] of Cilicia,
BLB: And having read [it] and having asked what province he is from, and having learned that [he is] from Cilicia,

ÅB: Da han hadde lest det og spurt hva land han var fra, og fått vite at han var fra Kilikia, sa han:
OTB: Guvernøren leste brevet og spurte fra hvilken provins Paulus var. Da han fikk vite at han var fra Kilikia,
B1930: Da han hadde lest det og spurt hvad land han var fra, og fått vite at han var fra Kilikia, sa han:

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Acts 21:39
But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
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Acts 25:1
Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
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Esther 1:1
This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.
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Esther 8:9
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
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Daniel 6:1
Now it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,
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Daniel 2:49
And at Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to manage the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the king’s court.
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Acts 15:41
And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
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Acts 6:9
But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They began to argue with Stephen,
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