Acts 4:36

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Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

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Cyprus was Barnabas’s native island in the eastern Mediterranean, showing that this Levite believer came from the Jewish diaspora; Jerusalem was the center of the early church, where he sold property and gave the proceeds to the apostles. Nazareth is not mentioned in this verse and has no direct role in its setting.

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Acts 4:36 mentions Cyprus, Jerusalem and Nazareth.

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