Acts 21:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

of Tarsus. a Tarsean. Greek. Tarseus. See note on Acts 9:11.

in. of.

citizen. Greek. polites. Only here and Luke 15:15; Luke 19:14.

mean. without mark. Greek. asemos. Only here. Used of disease without definite symptoms. In the medical writer, Hippocrates, the very expression "no mean city" occurs. Figure of speech Tapeinosis. App-6.

beseech. Greek. deomai. App-134.

speak. Greek. laleo. App-121.

Acts 21:39

39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.