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Acts 15:12

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All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

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Paul's Missionary JourneysThe routes of the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys across the Mediterranean world.
The Roman Empire of the New TestamentThe Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, the political world of the New Testament.

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Antioch in Syria was the missionary church that sent Paul and Barnabas, whose report of Gentile conversions prompted the Jerusalem council. Cyprus and Pamphylia lay on their mission route, while Judea, Phoenicia, Samaria, Cilicia, and Jerusalem frame the wider dispute over Gentile inclusion in God’s covenant people.

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Acts 15:12 mentions Antioch, Cilicia, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Judea, Pamphylia, Phoenicia, Samaria and Syria.

Antioch · Volkan Hatem
Cilicia · Volker Höhfeld
Cyprus · Deensel
Jerusalem · Godot13

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