Act 11:20 | PNT | STEP | Cyrene . A great Grecian city of North Africa, with a large Jewish population. These preachers were Jews from Cyprus and Cyrene who had been converted at Jerusalem. Spoke to the Grecians . "Greeks" in the Revised Version. The preachers were "Grecians", i.e., Hellenistic Jews (foreign Jews), but those to whom they spoke were Greeks, Gentiles, not of Jewish blood at all, I suppose "devout Greeks" who had turned from idols to seek the purer worship of Jehovah ( see PNT Ac 10:2 ). These preachers, without knowledge of the call of the Gentiles, led by the spirit of Christ, preached the gospel to these Gentile seekers for light, with the result that a great multitude believed and turned to the Lord".

Acts 11:20

Cyrene . A great Grecian city of North Africa, with a large Jewish population. These preachers were Jews from Cyprus and Cyrene who had been converted at Jerusalem. Spoke to the Grecians . "Greeks" in the Revised Version. The preachers were "Grecians", i.e., Hellenistic Jews (foreign Jews), but those to whom they spoke were Greeks, Gentiles, not of Jewish blood at all, I suppose "devout Greeks" who had turned from idols to seek the purer worship of Jehovah ( see PNT Ac 10:2 ). These preachers, without knowledge of the call of the Gentiles, led by the spirit of Christ, preached the gospel to these Gentile seekers for light, with the result that a great multitude believed and turned to the Lord".