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Acts 11:20

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Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

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As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. This man they compelled to bear His cross.

The Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

Now those who were scattered by the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to no one except Jews.

News of these things came to the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a considerable crowd. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

In these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

In the church that was in Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.

Then it pleased the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas called Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers.

They wrote this letter by their hand: The apostles and the elders and the brothers, To the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.

So when they were dismissed, they went down to Antioch. And when they had assembled the congregation, they delivered the letter.

Then some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What will this babbler say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them.

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church and then went down to Antioch.

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

Joseph, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means, Son of Encouragement), a Levite from the land of Cyprus,

Daily, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

Now in those days, as the disciples were multiplied, there was murmuring among the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily distribution.

And what was said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, who was a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Procorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,

Then some men rose up from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and of Asia), disputing with Stephen.

Then Philip spoke, beginning with the same Scripture, and preached Jesus to him.

Philip went down to the main city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.

Immediately he preached in the synagogues that the Christ is the Son of God.

And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Hellenists. But they tried to kill him.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him face to face, because he stood condemned.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,




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