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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul is correcting the chief captain's wrong idea about who Paul is.
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# Tarsus in Cilicia
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Cilicia was a Roman province across the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt, and Tarsus was a large, well-known city.
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# I am a citizen of no unimportant city
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Paul uses the double negative in the phrase "no unimportant city" to emphasize that the chief captain should have known that Tarsus was an important city. Alternate translation: "I am a citizen of an important city" (See: [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_doublenegatives]])
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# I beg you
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Or "I plead with you."
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# allow me
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"please allow me" or please permit me"
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