When the Christian believers realise that Saul’s life is in danger, they make a plan to take him to Tarsus. In order to accomplish this, they must first travel roughly one hundred kilometres to Caesarea Maritima, a harbour city to the north-west of Jerusalem.1 From this city Saul would be able to travel by ship back to his hometown of Tarsus.
30 And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.