born in Tarsus of Cilicia, yet brought up in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel (22:3). Tarsus was a city outside of Palestine, Greek in its culture. The fact that Paul was born there would put him in an unfavorable light with the Jerusalem Jews. We see that prejudice of the Jews against their fellow-countrymen who had absorbed Greek culture and who read the Old Testament in the Greek Septuagint version rather than in their native Hebrew, manifested in the early church (Acts 6), where those responsible