Places of the Bible
Cyrene
City · http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrene%2C_Libya
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Cyrene, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Holy Week · 30 AD · 3 verses
- Bearing Cross to Golgotha · 30 AD · 3 verses
- The Holy Spirit comes · 30 AD · 1 verse
- Disciples first called Christians · 40 AD · 1 verse
- First Missionary Journey · 45 AD · 1 verse
- First missionary journey begins · 45 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. 630). It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, because he thought they would contribute to the security of the place. They increased in number and influence; and we are thus prepared for the frequent references to them in connection with the early history of Christianity. Simon, who bore our Lord’s cross, was a native of this place (Matt. 27:32; Mark 15:21). Jews from Cyrene were in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:10); and Cyrenian Jews had a synagogue at Jerusalem (6:9). Converts belonging to Cyrene contributed to the formation of the first Gentile church at Antioch (11:20). Among “the prophets and teachers” who “ministered to the Lord at Antioch” was Lucius of Cyrene (13:1).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 6 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.