Luke 23:6

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.”

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;

Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” They went out, and struck in the city.

Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.