And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Shimon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the execution stake, that he might bear it after Y'shuw`a.
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.
Now there were in the Congregation that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Bar-Nabba, and Shimeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Menachem, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Shaul.