Salamis, Cyprus

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, this is now Paul and Barnabas were sent down to Cilicia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

And when they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had John, that's John Mark, who was the nephew of Barnabas, to assist them.

And when they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bargesus.

He was with the procouncil, Sergius Paulus, Watch how he's described.

And from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.

And they had also John to their minister.

We'll come back to that tomorrow night.

So being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had John to assist them.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

They went down to the seaport of Seleucia and then sailed for the island of Cyprus.

There, in the town of Salamis, they went to the Jewish synagogues and preached the word of God.

John Mark went with them as their assistant.

Afterward, they traveled from town to town across the entire island until finally they reached Paphos, where they met a Jewish sorcerer, a false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

So being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews and they had John to assist them.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

That's what Barnabas and Saul do.

We'll see in verse five through seven.

It says this, when they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews and they have John to assist them.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed there to Cyprus.

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.

John was with them there as their helper.

Verse 1.

This island had been under Roman rule for about 100 years when Paul arrived there.

And we see in verse 5 that when they arrived at Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.

They also had Yohanan as a helper person And when they had gone throughout the whole island as far as Paphos to the west there, Salamis, this was the largest city on Cyprus, and we read here that the Lord's servants preached the word of God to our Jewish people in the synagogues there and made disciples.

Now, although we learned earlier from chapter 9 that Shaul was called to be Yeshua's emissary to the Gentiles, we will see going forward in the book of Acts 10 times that he always made it his practice to bring the good news of the Messiah Yeshua to the Jewish people first, wherever there were any.

And this accords with his teaching in Romans chapter 1 verse 16. and his heart's longing that Israel should be saved, Romans 9, 10, and 11.

And John Mark joined Paul and Barnabas before the first missionary journey.

Actually, we're told in Acts 13:5, "And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John to their minister." But this man, of course, he turned back at Perga in Pamphylia, and apparently it was a fact that he was maybe a little yellow.

Maybe he was chicken, as we would say today, using the commonplace.

And we don't need, I think, to defend John Mark for turning back.

And since finding it, it's just become clearer and clearer that the pottery is just a front for what they really found.

Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, access to the Salamis necropolis fell under the control of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,

allowing for more looting.

this is a great way to allow those groups to just go in there undocumented and remove all of the old world items with artifacts being smuggled out of the area during and after the conflict and i just find it really odd that this group is consistently interested in our favorite sites All of the sites that would expose the old world.