Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul,

When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.