Acts 6:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

There

Acts 13:45

Acts 17:17

The synagogue

Cyrenians

Alexandrians

Acts 18:24

Acts 27:6

Cilicia

Disputing

1 Corinthians 1:20

General references

1 Corinthians 1:27

Bible References

There

When they saw the crowds, the Jews were filled with jealousy, and began to contradict Paul's statements, and to abuse him.

He argued in the synagogues with the Jews and the devout proselytes, and also daily in the market-place with those that met him there.

The synagogue

"'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you,

"In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to foreign cities.

"But beware of men! For they will give you up to the Sanhedrin, and flog you in their synagogues.

"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me.

"But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

Cyrenians

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

Some of them, however, were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on reaching Antioch, began to tell the Greeks also the Good News concerning the Lord Jesus.

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.

Alexandrians

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, a learned man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

And there the centurion found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board of her.

Cilicia

They took with them the following letter. "The apostles and older brothers send greeting to the Gentile Brotherhood throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia;

"I am a Jew," answered Paul, "a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. And I pray you, give me permission to speak to the people."

"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.

After reading the letter, he asked to what province he belonged, and when he understood that he was of Cilicia, he said,

and after sailing across the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra, in Lycia.

Then I went into the districts of Syria and Cilicia.

Disputing

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

General references

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.