Acts 9:11

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

But when the brothers learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

And he left for Tarsus to search for Saul;

But Paul said, “I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city, having been instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today,