Acts 6:9

Full Chapter

September 17, 2025

KJV

Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

BSB

But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They began to argue with Stephen,

WEB

But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines,” and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

YLT

and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,

F.O.G Original

(9) But certain ones from what’s called the Synagogue of Liberty, both Cyrenians (Supremacy of Bridle), Alexandrians (Defenders) and ones from Cilicia (Hair Cloth) and Asia (Orient, Mire), rose up, disputing Stephen.

F.O.G

F.O.G MSG

⁹Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmenᵈ (as it was called)—Jews from Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen.

Footnotes:

⁹ᵈ Synagogue of the Freedmen: A synagogue composed of freed slaves and their descendants, likely Jews who had been enslaved and later freed by Romans.