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New Living Translation

Galatians 1:21

After that visit I went north into the provinces of Syria and Cilicia.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cilicia;   Minister, Christian;   Paul;   Syria;   Scofield Reference Index - Grace;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cilicia;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Cilicia;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Damascus;   Paul;   Syria;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Paul the Apostle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cilicia;   Paul;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Acts of the Apostles;   Corinth;   Galatians, the Epistle to the;   Paul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Apostles;   Church;   Cilicia;   Flesh;   Galatians, Letter to the;   Syria;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronology of the New Testament;   Cilicia;   Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acts of the Apostles;   Cilicia ;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Roman Law in the Nt;   Syria ;   Tarsus ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cilicia ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cilicia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Cilic'ia;   Syr'ia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Paul;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Acts of the Apostles;   Cilicia;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Syrians;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Afterward, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
King James Version (1611)
Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,
King James Version
Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
English Standard Version
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
New American Standard Bible
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
New Century Version
Later, I went to the areas of Syria and Cilicia.
Amplified Bible
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Berean Standard Bible
Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Contemporary English Version
Later, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Complete Jewish Bible
Next I went to Syria and Cilicia;
Darby Translation
Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Easy-to-Read Version
Later, I went to the areas of Syria and Cilicia.
Geneva Bible (1587)
After that, I went into the coastes of Syria and Cilicia:
George Lamsa Translation
After that I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
Good News Translation
Afterward I went to places in Syria and Cilicia.
Lexham English Bible
Then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
Literal Translation
Then I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
American Standard Version
Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Bible in Basic English
Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.
Hebrew Names Version
Then I came to the regions of Aram and Cilicia.
International Standard Version
Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.Acts 9:30;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And after these I went to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia.
Murdock Translation
And after that, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Afterwarde, I came into the coastes of Syria & Cilicia,
English Revised Version
Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
World English Bible
Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Weymouth's New Testament
Afterwards I visited Syria and Cilicia.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Afterward Y cam in to the coostis of Syrie and Cilicie.
Update Bible Version
Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Webster's Bible Translation
Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
New English Translation
Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
New King James Version
Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
New Life Bible
I went from Jerusalem to the countries of Syria and Cilicia.
New Revised Standard
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Revised Standard Version
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cili'cia.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
After that I went into the costes of Siria and Cilicia:
Young's Literal Translation
then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After that wente I in to the coastes of Syria and Celicia:
Mace New Testament (1729)
afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
THE MESSAGE
Then I began my ministry in the regions of Syria and Cilicia. After all that time and activity I was still unknown by face among the Christian churches in Judea. There was only this report: "That man who once persecuted us is now preaching the very message he used to try to destroy." Their response was to recognize and worship God because of me!
Simplified Cowboy Version
After that, I rode north into Syria and Cilicia,

Contextual Overview

10 Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ's servant. 11 Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. 12 I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ. 13 You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion—how I violently persecuted God's church. I did my best to destroy it. 14 I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors. 15 But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him 16 to reveal his Son to me so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles. When this happened, I did not rush out to consult with any human being. 17 Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to consult with those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away into Arabia, and later I returned to the city of Damascus. 18 Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to get to know Peter, and I stayed with him for fifteen days. 19 The only other apostle I met at that time was James, the Lord's brother.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I came: Acts 9:30, Acts 11:25, Acts 11:26, Acts 13:1, Acts 15:23, Acts 15:41, Acts 18:18, Acts 21:3

Cilicia: Acts 6:9, Acts 21:39, Acts 22:3, Acts 23:34

Reciprocal: Acts 20:3 - sail Acts 27:5 - Cilicia

Cross-References

Genesis 1:18
to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals." And that is what happened.
Genesis 1:25
God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground."
Genesis 1:31
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive.
Genesis 7:14
With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind.
Genesis 8:17
Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth."
Genesis 8:19
And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
Genesis 9:7
Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. For having disputed against the Grecians at Jerusalem, and being too hard for them, it so irritated them, that they were going to murder him; which being known to the brethren there, they got him out of the way, and had him down to Caesarea, and so to Tarsus, a city in Cilicia; where he was born; in which places and in the countries about he preached the Gospel of Christ; to Tarsus, Barnabas went for him seeking him, and finding him brought him to Antioch in Syria; and both in Syria and Cilicia he preached, no doubt with success, since we read of believing Gentiles and churches in those parts he afterwards visited; being sent along with others, with the letter and decrees of the synod at Jerusalem to them, and whom he confirmed; :-,

:-: in the Greek text these countries are called "climates"; a climate in geography is said y to be a part of the surface of the earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of such a breadth as that the longest day in the parallel nearer the pole, exceeds the longest day in that next the equator, by some certain space, viz. half an hour--. The beginning of the climate is the parallel circle wherein the day is the shortest, the end of the climate is that wherein the day is the longest;--each climate only differs from its contiguous ones, in that the longest day in summer is longer or shorter by half an hour in the one place than in the other:--vulgarly the term climate is bestowed on any country or region differing from another, either in respect of the seasons, the quality of the soil, or even the manners of the inhabitants, without any regard to the length of the longest day; in which sense it seems to be used here, as also in Romans 15:23. Of the country of Syria, Romans 15:23- :. Cilicia is a country of Asia Minor, now called Caramania; it had its name of Cilicia, as Herodotus says z, from Cilix, the son of Agenor, a Phoenician: though Bochart a derives it from Challekim or Challukim, which signifies stones, it being a stony country; and so Herodotus b calls it "mountainous" Cilicia; it is said to have Pamphilia on the west, the tops of Mount Taurus on the north, Mount Amanus on the east, and the Cilician sea on the south; Jerom says c, Cilicia is a province of Asia, which the river Cydnus cuts in the middle, and Mount Amanus, of which Solomon makes mention, separates it from Syria-Coele.

y Chambers's Cyclopaedia in the word "Climate". z L. 7. Polymnia, c. 91. Solinus, c. 51. a Canaan, p. 376. b L. 2. Euterpe, c. 34. c De locis Hebraicis, fol. 95. M.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Afterward I came ... - In this account be has omitted a circumstance recorded by Luke Acts 9:29, of the controversy which he had with the Grecians (Hellenists). It was not material to the purpose which he has here in view, which is to state that he was not indebted to the apostles for his knowledge of the doctrines of Christianity. He therefore merely states that he left Jerusalem soon after he went there, and traveled to other places.

The regions of Syria - Syria was between Jerusalem and Cilicia. Antioch was the capital of Syria, and in that city and the adjacent places he spent considerable time; compare Acts 15:23, Acts 15:41.

Cilicia - This was a province of Asia Minor, of which Tarsus, the native place of Paul, was the capital; see the note at Acts 6:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 21. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria, c.] The course of the apostle's travels, after his conversion, was this: He went from Damascus to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem into Syria and Cilicia. "At Damascus the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket and when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples;" Acts 9:25-26. Afterwards, when the brethren knew the conspiracy formed against him at Jerusalem, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus, a city of Cilicia, Acts 9:30. This account in the Acts agrees with that in this epistle.


 
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