Acts 11:20

11:20 But there were some men from Cyprus46 and Cyrene47 among them who came48 to Antioch49 and began to speak to the Greeks50 too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

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46	sn Cyprus was a large island in the Mediterranean off the south coast of Asia Minor.
47	sn Cyrene was a city on the northern African coast west of Egypt.
48	tn Grk “among them, coming to Antioch began to speak.” The participle ἐλθόντες (elthontes) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
49	sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19.
50	sn The statement that some men from Cyprus and Cyrene … began to speak to the Greeks shows that Peter’s experience of reaching out to the Gentiles was not unique.