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    Cyrene

    Κυρηναῖος

    Cyrene, a city in North Africa, was the hometown of Simon, who carried Jesus' cross, and several early Christians mentioned in Acts.

    Where the story of Cyrene happens Where the gazetteer locates Cyrene, framed to them: Cyrene. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Cyrene
    Where the gazetteer locates Cyrene
    verses
    7
    first named
    Matthew 27:32
    last named
    Acts 13:1
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    32.82°N · 21.85°E
    settlement32.82°N · 21.85°E

    Cyrene (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Cyrene in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Cyrene was an important city in ancient Libya, located in present-day Libya. In the New Testament, Cyrene is mentioned in connection with several individuals who played a role in the life of Jesus and the early Christian church.

    Simon of Cyrene, who was compelled by Roman soldiers to carry Jesus' cross on the way to His crucifixion, is mentioned in Matthew 27:32, Mrk.15.21, and Luke 23:26. Mark's Gospel identifies Simon as the father of Alexander and Rufus, suggesting that these men may have been known to the early Christian community.

    In Act.2.10, Cyrenians are listed among the people present in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples. Some of these Cyrenian Jews, along with those from Cyprus, were among the first to preach the gospel to the Gentiles in Antioch (Act.11.20).

    Lucius of Cyrene is mentioned as one of the prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch who ministered to the Lord and fasted, leading to the commissioning of Barnabas and Saul (Paul) for their first missionary journey (Act.13.1).

    In Act.6.9, Cyrenian Jews are mentioned as part of the Synagogue of the Freedmen, which disputed with Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

    These references to Cyrene in the New Testament highlight the city's significance as a center of Jewish diaspora and its contribution to the spread of early Christianity, particularly in the evangelization of Gentiles.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Cyrene is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSACTS4 VERSES39 books and 929 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSACTS4 VERSES39 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Cyrene is named in 7 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 4 books.

    1. Matthew1 verse

      27:32

    2. Mark1 verse

      15:21

    3. Luke1 verse

      23:26

    4. Acts4 verses

      2:106:911:2013:1

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

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