The believers decided that they would all try to help their brothers and sisters who lived in Judea. Each believer planned to send them as much as he could.
Those people gave as much as they were able. These are the things those people gave for building the temple: 1,100 pounds {\cf2\super [8]} of gold, 3 tons {\cf2\super [9]} of silver, and 100 coats that priests wear.
And I said to those people, “Our Jewish brothers were sold as slaves to people in other countries. We did our best to buy them back and make them free. And now, you are selling them like slaves again!”
When he found Saul, Barnabas brought him to Antioch. Saul and Barnabas stayed there a whole year. Every time the group of believers came together, Saul and Barnabas met with them and taught many people. In Antioch the followers \{of Jesus\} were called “Christians” for the first time.
The followers \{of Jesus\} gathered around Paul and he got up and went back into the town. The next day, he and Barnabas left and went to the city of Derbe.
In those cities Paul and Barnabas made the followers \{of Jesus\} stronger. They helped them to stay in the faith. Paul and Barnabas said, “We must suffer many things on our way into God’s kingdom.”
More and more people were becoming followers of Jesus. But during this same time, the Greek-speaking followers had an argument with the other Jewish followers. They said that their widows {\cf2\super [107]} were not getting their share of the things that the followers received every day.
One night some followers that Saul had taught helped him leave the city. The followers put Saul in a basket. They put the basket through a hole in the city wall and lowered him down.