Acts 13:4

sent forth by the Holy Ghost A repetition which marks the solemn character which St Luke and also his informant attached to this new form of the Christian work.

unto Seleucia which was the seaport of Antioch at the mouth of the Orontes. See Dictionary of the Bible.

and from thence they sailed to Cyprus Probably, if not specially directed, the missionary Apostles were induced to take this route because Cyprus was the birthplace of one of them, and there were in the island already many Jews resident, and also some Cypriote Christians (Acts 11:20), who perhaps had been in Jerusalem at the feast of Pentecost among the various nationalities then assembled, and who had, when driven away by persecution, turned their steps homeward and preached Jesus to their fellow-countrymen (Acts 11:19).