Acts 2:10

in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

'EGYPT AND THE PARTS OF LIBYA ABOUT CYRENE'-i.e. the region of North Africa. 'Jews had lived in Egypt continuously from the earlier parts of the 6th century B.C. and were always receiving fresh accessions...Philo, an Alexandrian Jew himself, estimated in A.D. 38 that there were about. million Jews in Egypt; two out of the five wards which made up the city of Alexandria were Jewish in population.' (Bruce pp. 62-63)

'SOJOURNERS FROM ROME'-'visitors from Rome' (TCNT). 'We have references in Roman inscriptions to at least seven Jewish synagogues in Rome.' (Bruce p. 63)

'PROSELYTES'-4339. proselutos pros-ay'-loo-tos; from the alternate of 4334; an arriver from. foreign region, i.e. (specifically) an acceder (convert) to Judaism ("proselyte"): -proselyte.

-'a proselyte was. Gentile who undertook to keep the Jewish law in its entirely and was admitted into full fellowship with the people of Israel.' (Bruce p. 64) For. male, this included being circumcised. Bruce also notes, 'Nowhere was Jewish proselytizing activity carried on more energetically than in Rome.' (p. 63)