²⁰ But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks.

¹ Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.

³² And while they were coming out, they saw a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they made him go with them, so that he might take up his cross.

⁹ But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.

¹⁰ In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews,

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

² For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.

²³ But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;

²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

¹⁸ And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

²⁹ Preaching in the name of the Lord without fear; and he had discussions with the Greek Jews; but they were working for his death.

²⁰ And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.

³⁵ So Philip, starting from this writing, gave him the good news about Jesus.

⁵ And Philip went down to Samaria and was teaching them about Christ.

⁴² And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

¹ Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

³⁶ And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas (the sense of which is, Son of comfort), a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,

³⁵ So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?