Salamis
Acts 13:3-12
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.…


The Greek capital of the island on its eastern side, the nearest port to Seleucia, at the mouth of the Perdicas, the largest river in Cyprus, a little to the north of the Venetian capital, Famagusta. Under its subsequent name, Constantia, given when it had been rebuilt by Constantine after an earthquake, Salamis had for one of its bishops. reports, that human sacrifices were offered there periodically till the time of Hadrian.

(Bp. Jacobsen.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

WEB: Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.




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