Acts 11:29

Therefore the disciples, according as each of them had, determined to send for the service of those brethren who dwelt in Jihud;

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:

In Context

28And one of them arose whose name was Agabos: and he made known to them by the Spirit that a great famine would be in all the land. And that famine was in the days of Claudios Caesar.

30and they sent by the hand of Bar Naba and Shaol to the presbyters who were there.

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Cross References

Luke 12:29And seek you not what you shall eat, and what you shall drink; nor let your mind be distracted for these:

Acts 4:34And no man of them had want; for they who possessed fields and houses sold, and brought the prices of whatever was sold

Acts 11:26and when he had found him he brought him with him to Antiokia. And a whole year together they assembled in the church, and taught much people: from thence first in Antiokia the disciples were called Christianee.

1 Corinthians 13:5it acteth not with unseemliness, nor seeketh its own; it is not angry, nor thoughtful of evil;

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 →

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