“But Paul said, I am a man which am a Iew of Tarsus, a citie in Cilicia, a citizen of no meane citie: & I beseech thee suffer me to speake vnto the people.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
Ac 21:39 I am . . . a Jew of Tarsus. As Tarsus was "no mean city", a free city, he was entitled to some consideration.