1. Sergius Paulus was proconsul when Paul preached there. —Acts 13:7.

2. He governed Bithynia and succeeded Pertinax as the proconsul of Africa.

3. Sergius Paulus, the proconsul of Cyprus, sought to hear the word of God

4. This supports the Bible account that Roman administration of the island was carried out through proconsuls.

5. For example, it correctly refers to Herod Antipas as “district ruler” and Gallio as “proconsul.”

6. The outgoing proconsuls were to bring back home the veterans who had spent a long time in Hispania.

7. 1:14) On another occasion, the Jews in Corinth had brought charges against Paul before Gallio, proconsul of Achaia.

8. Sergius Paulus, the proconsul of Cyprus, was “an intelligent man” who “sought to hear the word of God.”

9. The province of Achaia was under the administration of the Roman Senate and was ruled through a proconsul from its capital, Corinth.

10. That speakers’ stand seems to be the judgment seat where the apostle Paul stood before the proconsul Gallio, Roman governor of Achaia.

11. Traditionally, Analogising comparative anatomical approaches, working on features of individual bony elements, have led to the Miocene hominoids Proconsul heseloni and P

12. Many have proved themselves people of principle, such as the proconsul Sergius Paulus who is described in the Bible as “an intelligent man.”

13. (noun) Caecilius Metellus was proconsul and earned a triumph after two years' fighting: but even in the time of Strabo there was considerable Brigandage.

14. There, they met up with “a sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus, and he was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man.”

15. 20 In Acts we read that Paul and Barnabas were sent to do missionary work in Cyprus and there met up with a proconsul named Sergius Paulus, “an intelligent man.”

16. The proconsul wore a toga ornamented with the laticlave, a broad purple band extending down the front of the garment, indicating his rank; and his feet were encased in the kind of Buskins worn by consuls.

17. This was the Paphos that Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark visited, and it was here that proconsul Sergius Paulus —“an intelligent man”— “earnestly sought to hear the word of God” in spite of the fierce opposition of the sorcerer Elymas.

18. 1:6, 23) To illustrate: Because of what the apostle Paul said and did on the island of Cyprus, the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus “became a believer, for he was astounded at the teaching of Jehovah.” —Read Acts 13:6-12.