Acts 11:26
When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. It came about, that for an entire year they gathered together with the church and taught many people. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
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In Context
25Barnabas then went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
27Now in these days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Cross References
Matthew 28:19Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations. Baptize them into the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 11:20But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, came to Antioch and spoke also to Greeks, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.
Acts 11:27Now in these days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Acts 14:23When they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
Acts 26:28Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me and make me a Christian?”
1 Corinthians 11:18For in the first place, I hear that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
Matthew Henry on Acts 11:20-27
The Gospel Preached at Antioch; Success of the Gospel at Antioch; Barnabas at Antioch. 19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. 20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord. 22… Read the whole commentary →