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• Acts 12

  [Bible]

  Acts 12 is the chapter in which King Herod kills James and imprisons Peter, an angel leads Peter out of prison, and Herod is struck down and dies.

• Silas

  [People]

  Silas appears in the New Testament book of Acts as a leader of the Jerusalem church who accompanied Paul on his second missionary journey. In the Pauline epistles and 1 Peter he appears under the name Silvanus.

• God-fearers

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  "God-fearers" is a term for Gentiles in the New Testament era who believed in the God of the Jews and took part in synagogue worship but did not convert to Judaism by receiving circumcision. The expression appears frequently in the Book of Acts.

• Phoenicia

  [Bible]

  Phoenicia is a New Testament place name for the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, roughly the coastal region of present-day Lebanon. Its chief cities were Tyre and Sidon, and in Acts it appears as a gateway through which the gospel spread into Gentile lands.

• Claudius

  [People]

  Claudius was a Roman emperor of the mid-first century AD. He is named twice in the book of Acts, which records a famine during his reign and his order expelling the Jews from Rome.

• Cyprus

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  Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean, known today by the same name. In the Book of Acts it appears as the home of Barnabas and as the first place where the gospel was preached on Paul's first missionary journey.

• Sergius Paulus

  [People]

  Sergius Paulus was the Roman proconsul of Cyprus mentioned in Acts 13. He sought to hear the word of God from Barnabas and Saul (Paul), and Scripture records that he believed after seeing the sorcerer Elymas struck blind.

• Cyril of Alexandria

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  Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444) was a fifth-century bishop of Alexandria and Church Father who opposed Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus in 431 and championed a Christology emphasizing the one person of Christ.

• Phoenicia

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  Phoenicia was the region of port cities such as Tyre and Sidon on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, in what is now Lebanon. The New Korean Revised Version renders the name "Benige." In the Old Testament the region appears mainly under the names of its cities, Tyre and Sidon.