Acts 9:30

ACTS—NOTE ON Acts 9:30 On Caesarea, see note on 8:40. Paul’s hometown of Tarsus was a strategically important city in southeast Asia Minor on the road from Syria into central Asia Minor. Paul calls it “no obscure city” (Acts 21:39). To Tarsus corresponds to Galatians 1:21, where Paul says he went to “Cilicia,” the province in which Tarsus was located. Paul was based in Tarsus and ministered in Syria-Cilicia for the next eight years (c. A.D. 37–45). Some of the events described in 2 Corinthians 11:23 perhaps occurred during this time, and probably also his intense vision of heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2).