mnt - Acts:11:19-30

mnt@Acts:11:19 @ Then those who had been scattered by the trouble that arose over Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch; but they preached the word to none except Jews.

mnt@Acts:11:20 @ Some of them, however, were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on reaching Antioch, began to tell the Greeks also the Good News concerning the Lord Jesus.

mnt@Acts:11:21 @ The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

mnt@Acts:11:22 @ When news of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

mnt@Acts:11:23 @ When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;

mnt@Acts:11:24 @ for he was a good man, and full of faith and the Holy Spirit. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

mnt@Acts:11:25 @ Then Barnabas visited Tarsus, to try to find Saul,

mnt@Acts:11:26 @ and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."

mnt@Acts:11:27 @ At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

mnt@Acts:11:28 @ One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

mnt@Acts:11:29 @ So the disciples decided to send relief, every man according to his means, to the brothers in Judea.

mnt@Acts:11:30 @ This they did, forwarding their contributions to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.