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Acts 6:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Opposition arose, however, from some members of the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and they began to argue with Stephen.

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After he  read it, he asked what province he was from. When he learned he was from Cilicia,


He  continued, ‘I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel  according to the strictness of our ancestral law. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.


He travelled through Syria  and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.


They wrote: ‘From the apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers and sisters among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.


As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced him to carry his cross.


Afterwards, I went to the regions of Syria  and Cilicia.


When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and seized him,


This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks,  heard the word of the Lord.


Now a Jew named Apollos,  a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was competent in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.


They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia; they had been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.


But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you   and persecute   you. They will hand you over to the synagogues   and prisons,   and you will be brought before kings and governors   because of my name.


‘But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to local courts,   , and you will be flogged   in the synagogues.   You will stand before governors and kings   because of me,   as a witness   to them.


Beware of them, because they will hand you over to local courts   and flog you in their synagogues.


Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law?  Where is the debater of this age?  Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?


In all the synagogues I often punished them and tried to make them blaspheme.  Since I was terribly enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.


‘But I said, “Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in you imprisoned and beaten.


Paul said, ‘I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia,  a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.’


You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods.


But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.


Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, a close friend of Herod the tetrarch,  and Saul.


But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks  also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.


This is why I am sending you prophets,   wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues   and pursue from town to town.


But they were unable to stand up against his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking.


While I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar.





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