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11:19-29 The people who had been scattered (from Jerusalem) because of the persecution occurring over
Stephen, passed through to Phoenicia
and Cyprus and Antioch. They did not speak 'the word' to anyone
except to Jews. But some of them
were men from Cyprus and
Cyrene who came to
Antioch.
They also spoke to the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus to them. The hand of the Lord was with them and a
great number of people believed and turned to the Lord. An account of this reached the church in Jerusalem and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
On arriving and seeing the grace of God he rejoiced and exhorted all
to remain with the Lord with purpose of heart. He (Barnabas) was a good man and full of
the Holy Spirit and faith. A considerable crowd was added to the Lord. He
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(then) went forth to Tarsus to seek Saul. On finding him he
brought him to Antioch. It happened that for a whole year they
assembled in the church to teach a large crowd. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first
called Christians.
In
these days some prophets came from Jerusalem
to Antioch. One of them named Agabus
rose up and signified through the spirit that a great famine was about to
come over all the inhabited world. This happened in the time of (Emperor)
Claudius. And so any of the
disciples who were prosperous decided
that each of them would send something from their ministry to the
brothers dwelling in Judea. They indeed did this sand sent something
to the elders through the hand of Barnabas
and Saul.
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