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Acts 11:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch,  speaking the word to no one except Jews.

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Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded and set sail.


But Paul and Barnabas, along with many others, remained in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming the word of the Lord.


Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas,  both leading men among the brothers.


When they had been sent on their way by the church,  they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they brought great joy to all the brothers and sisters.


Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus by birth, the one the apostles called Barnabas (which is translated Son of Encouragement),


But when Cephas  came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.


Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us and brought us to Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to stay.


On landing at Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church, then went down to Antioch.


They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company, and Barnabas took Mark  with him and sailed off to Cyprus.


Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, ‘It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.


So being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.


Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, a close friend of Herod the tetrarch,  and Saul.


God raised up his servant  and sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.’


Then the Jews  said to one another, ‘Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed  , among the Greeks  and teach the Greeks, does he?


Instead, go to the lost sheep   of the house of Israel.


This proposal pleased the whole company. So they chose Stephen,  a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a convert from Antioch.


But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks  also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.


News about them reached  the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to travel  as far as Antioch.


From there they sailed back to Antioch where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.


So they were sent off and went down to Antioch, and after gathering the assembly, they delivered the letter.





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