9 But certain men rose up of those from the so-called Synagogue of the Freedmen, and of the Cy·reʹni·ans and Alexandrians+ and of those from Ci·liʹcia+ and Asia, to dispute with Stephen;
... 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that he might bring bound to Jerusalem any whom he found who belonged to The Way,+ both men and women.