Acts 9:29

9:29 He was speaking and debating ¹  with the Greek-speaking Jews, ²  but they were trying to kill him.

Acts 11:20

11:20 But there were some men from Cyprus ³  and Cyrene ⁴  among them who came ⁵  to Antioch ⁶  and began to speak to the Greeks ⁷  too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

¹ tn Or “arguing.” BDAG 954 s.v. συζητέω 2 gives “dispute, debate, argue…τινί ‘w. someone’” for συνεζήτει (sunezhtei).

² tn Grk “the Hellenists,” but this descriptive term is largely unknown to the modern English reader. The translation “Greek-speaking Jews” attempts to convey something of who these were, but it was more than a matter of language spoken; it involved a degree of adoption of Greek culture as well.

³ sn Cyprus was a large island in the Mediterranean off the south coast of Asia Minor.

⁴ sn Cyrene was a city on the northern African coast west of Egypt.

⁵ tn Grk “among them, coming to Antioch began to speak.” The participle ἐλθόντες (elqonte") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

⁶ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19.

⁷ sn The statement that some men from Cyprus and Cyrene…began to speak to the Greeks shows that Peter’s experience of reaching out to the Gentiles was not unique.