Acts 11:29
So, the disciples, as each one was able, decided to send help to the brothers in Judea.
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30They did this; they sent money to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
Cross References
Ezra 2:69They gave according to their ability to the work fund: sixty-one thousand gold darics, five thousand silver minas, and one hundred priestly tunics.
Ecclesiastes 11:1Send out your bread on the waters, 2 for you will find it again after many days. 1
Luke 12:29Do not look for what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious.
Acts 4:34There was no person among them who lacked anything, for all who owned title to lands or houses sold them and brought the money of the things that were sold
Acts 11:26When 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.
1 Corinthians 13:5or rude. It is not self-serving. It is not easily angered, nor does it keep a count of wrongs.
Matthew Henry on Acts 11:28-30
Primitive Charity. 27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. 28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar. 29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa: 30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. When our Lord Jesus ascended on high he… Read the whole commentary →