24 For he was a good man, afull of the Holy Spirit and of faith. bAnd a great many people were added to the Lord.
25 Then Barnabas departed for aTarsus to seek Saul.
26 And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
Relief to Judea
27 And in these days aprophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.
28 Then one of them, named aAgabus, stood up and showed by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine throughout all the world, which also happened in the days of bClaudius Caesar.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Acts 11:26.
Acts 11:25-26
Please turn with me to Acts 11, verse 6. Now Paul no longer thought of people God called to be Christians in those physical groups, so he used new names for them now. He no longer wanted to know what they were, but what they are, which is Christian, that is, followers of Christ.
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