Acts 11:29

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[In response to this prediction], the disciples decided to send as much relief as they could to help the brothers living in Judea.

Cross References

Galatians 2:10

The only thing that they encouraged us to do was to remember [the needs of] poor people, which I was very eager to do. [See Acts 24:17].

1 Corinthians 13:5

[Love] does not act improperly [toward people]; it does not insist on having its own way [at the expense of others]; it is not easily irritated [by others]; it does not keep track of the wrongs [done by others].

Acts 11:26

and when he found him, he brought him [back] to Antioch. So, for an entire year Saul and Barnabas gathered the church together and taught many people. [It was] here in Antioch that the disciples were first [divinely] called Christians.

Acts 11:1

Now the apostles and the [other] brothers in Judea heard that the Gentiles had responded to the message of God.

Acts 4:34

And no one lacked anything, for all who owned property or houses sold [some of] them and brought the money

John 2:2

and Jesus and His disciples had been invited to it also.

Acts 1:15

And during this time Peter stood up to speak to a gathering of about one hundred twenty persons.

Acts 6:1

Now during the days when the disciples were multiplying in number [in Jerusalem. See verse 7], some Greek-[speaking] Jews began to complain to the Hebrews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution [of food].

Acts 9:19

then ate a meal and received strength. And he stayed on for a number of days with the disciples at Damascus.

Acts 9:25

[However], his disciples lowered him in a basket over the [city] wall at night [and so he escaped].

Acts 13:52

But the [newly won] disciples [of the Lord] were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Acts 14:20

But as the disciples stood around [Paul’s apparently lifeless body], he [surprisingly] stood up [fully restored to health] and entered the town. On the following day he went with Barnabas to Derbe.

Acts 14:22

[Along the way] they strengthened the hearts of the disciples, urging them to continue [to believe and practice] the faith and [explaining] that entering God's [heavenly] kingdom [See II Tim. 4:18] requires enduring many trials.

Acts 24:17

“Now after several years I came [to Jerusalem] to bring relief for the poor people of my nation and to present my offerings.

Matthew 25:17

In the same way the one who was given two talents made two more.