Apostelgeschichte 11:20

20 Es waren aber etliche unter ihnen, Männer von Zypern und Kyrene, die kamen gen Antiochien und redeten auch zu den Griechen und predigten das Evangelium vom HERRN Jesus.

Apostelgeschichte 11:20 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:20

And some of them were men of Cyprus
That is, some of the preachers, that were scattered abroad, were Jews born at Cyprus: such was Barnabas particularly, ( Acts 4:36 ) though he was not among these, as appears from ( Acts 11:22 ) "and Cyrene"; such were Simon that carried the cross after Christ, and his sons Alexander and Rufus, ( Mark 15:21 ) and others that heard the apostles speak with tongues on the day of Pentecost, ( Acts 2:10 )

which when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians;
or Hellenist Jews, who were born and brought up in Greece, and spoke the Greek language; though the Alexandrian copy, and the Syriac version, read "Greeks", as if they were native Greeks, and properly Gentiles, to whom these ministers spoke the word of the Lord; but the former seems most likely.

Preaching the Lord Jesus;
the dignity of his person, as the Son of God; what he did and suffered to obtain salvation for lost sinners; his resurrection from the dead, ascension to heaven, and intercession; the virtue of his blood for peace and pardon of his sacrifice for atonement of sin, and of his righteousness for justification.

Apostelgeschichte 11:20 In-Context

18 Da sie das hörten schwiegen sie still und lobten Gott und sprachen: So hat Gott auch den Heiden Buße gegeben zum Leben!

19 Die aber zerstreut waren in der Trübsal, so sich über Stephanus erhob, gingen umher bis gen Phönizien und Zypern und Antiochien und redeten das Wort zu niemand denn allein zu den Juden.

20 Es waren aber etliche unter ihnen, Männer von Zypern und Kyrene, die kamen gen Antiochien und redeten auch zu den Griechen und predigten das Evangelium vom HERRN Jesus.

21 Und die Hand des HERRN war mit ihnen, und eine große Zahl ward gläubig und bekehrte sich zu dem HERRN.

22 Es kam aber diese Rede von ihnen vor die Ohren der Gemeinde zu Jerusalem; und sie sandten Barnabas, daß er hinginge bis gen Antiochien.