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

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with indignation, and spoke against what was spoken by Paul, contradicting and reviling.

Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout [Greeks], and in the market daily with those that met him.

The synagogue

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue, those that believed in thee;

And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

But beware of men. For they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

But do ye take heed to yourselves; they will deliver you up to councils, and ye will be taken into synagogues and beaten; and ye will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

But before all these things they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues, and into prisons, and bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name.

Cyrenians

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and Romans who sojourn here, both Jews and Proselytes,

But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks, publishing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.

Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenaean, and Manaen, the fosterbrother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And as they were going out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to carry his cross.

Alexandrians

And a certain Jew, named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

And there the centurion, finding a ship of Alexandria about to sail for Italy, put us on board of it.

Cilicia

And they wrote by them, "The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from the gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus, a citizen of no mean city of Cilicia; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people.

I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, hut brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel in the strictness of the Law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.

And having read the letter, he asked of what province he was; and when he understood that he was of Cilicia,

And having sailed over the sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

Disputing

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

General references

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;