I am (Εγω μεν ειμ). In contrast with the wild guess of Lysias Paul uses μεν and δε. He tells briefly who he is:

a J…

A Jew of Tarsus. A Jew by birth. (See Barnes on Acts 9:11).

A citizen of no mean city.—The boast was quite a legitimate one. In addition to all its fame for culture, the town of Tarsus bore on its c…

But Paul assured the commander that he was not the Egyptian revolutionary; rather, he was from Tarsus. The epithet “no ordinary city,” by which Pau…

But Paul said, I am a man who is a Jew of Tarsus
And not that Egyptian; he was not of that country, much less that m…

In the temple, where Paul should have been protected as in a place of safety, he was violently attacked. They falsely charged him with false doctri…