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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Cyrene
Greek colonists founded it in North Africa around 630 BC, and its temple of Apollo and theatre still stand near Shahhat in Libya. Simon of Cyrene carried Jesus's cross. Cyrenian believers helped start the mixed church at Antioch, and Lucius of Cyrene taught there.
Greek colonists founded it in North Africa around 630 BC, and its temple of Apollo and theatre still stand near Shahhat in Libya. Simon of Cyrene carried Jesus's cross. Cyrenian believers helped start the mixed church at Antioch, and Lucius of Cyrene taught there.
A prominent city in North Africa, in the region later called Libya, founded by Greek colonists around 630 BC; its extensive ruins, including a temple of Apollo and a well-preserved theater, still stand near the modern town of Shahhat in Libya. Cyrene had a large Jewish population, and its people appear repeatedly in the New Testament: Simon of Cyrene was compelled to carry Jesus's cross (Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21), Cyrenian Jews had their own synagogue in Jerusalem (Acts 6:9), Cyrenian believers helped found the mixed Jewish-Gentile church at Antioch (Acts 11:20), and Lucius of Cyrene was among the prophets and teachers serving that church (Acts 13:1).
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