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Reference: Symeon
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1. An ancestor of Jesus (Lu 3:30). 2. A prophet and teacher at Antioch (Ac 13:1). 3. Ac 15:14 = Simon Peter (see Peter).
1. An ancestor of Jesus (Lu 3:30). 2. A prophet and teacher at Antioch (Ac 13:1). 3. Ac 15:14 = Simon Peter (see Peter).
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.
"Brothers, listen to me. Symeon has told how God first looked graciously upon the Gentiles, to take out from among them a people to be called by his name.