Acts 11:20

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Summary

And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.

Cyrene

The grecians

Acts 6:1

Acts 9:29

Preaching

Bible References

Cyrene

in Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the district of Lybia around Cretans and Arabians,

But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,

Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

And as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to go with them to carry his cross.

The grecians

Now in these days while the number of the disciples was multiplying, the Grecian Jews began to murmur against the Hebrews, because their widows were habitually overlooked in the distribution of alms.

He also used to hold conversations and debates with the Grecian Jews, but they kept trying to kill him.

Preaching

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and began to preach Christ there.

And he began at once to proclaim in the synagogues Jesus as the Son of God.

A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;