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Acts 11:20

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Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

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As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.

News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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

From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.

With them they sent the following letter: The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.

So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter.

A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

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

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome

Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”),

Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.

Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen.

Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there.

At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.

He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they tried to kill him.

For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ,




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