Acts 11:26

Good News Translation

When he found him, he took him to Antioch, and for a whole year the two met with the people of the church and taught a large group. It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:15

My chosen people will use your name as a curse. I, the Sovereign Lord, will put you to death. But I will give a new name to those who obey me.

Matthew 28:19

Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

John 2:2

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Acts 1:15

A few days later there was a meeting of the believers, about a hundred and twenty in all, and Peter stood up to speak.

Acts 11:20

But other believers, who were from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and proclaimed the message to Gentiles also, telling them the Good News about the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:22

The news about this reached the church in Jerusalem, so they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Acts 11:27

About that time some prophets went from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 11:29

The disciples decided that they each would send as much as they could to help their fellow believers who lived in Judea.

Acts 14:20

But when the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day he and Barnabas went to Derbe.

Acts 14:22

They strengthened the believers and encouraged them to remain true to the faith. “We must pass through many troubles to enter the Kingdom of God,” they taught.

Acts 14:23

In each church they appointed elders, and with prayers and fasting they commended them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

Acts 14:27

When they arrived in Antioch, they gathered the people of the church together and told them about all that God had done with them and how he had opened the way for the Gentiles to believe.

Acts 14:28

And they stayed a long time there with the believers.

Acts 18:27

Apollos then decided to go to Achaia, so the believers in Ephesus helped him by writing to the believers in Achaia, urging them to welcome him. When he arrived, he was a great help to those who through God's grace had become believers.

Acts 19:9

But some of them were stubborn and would not believe, and before the whole group they said evil things about the Way of the Lord. So Paul left them and took the believers with him, and every day he held discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 20:1

After the uproar died down, Paul called together the believers and with words of encouragement said good-bye to them. Then he left and went on to Macedonia.

Acts 20:30

The time will come when some men from your own group will tell lies to lead the believers away after them.

Acts 21:4

There we found some believers and stayed with them a week. By the power of the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

Acts 26:28

Agrippa said to Paul, “In this short time do you think you will make me a Christian?”

Acts 6:1

Some time later, as the number of disciples kept growing, there was a quarrel between the Greek-speaking Jews and the native Jews. The Greek-speaking Jews claimed that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of funds.

Acts 6:5

The whole group was pleased with the apostles' proposal, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a Gentile from Antioch who had earlier been converted to Judaism.

Acts 9:19

and after he had eaten, his strength came back. Saul stayed for a few days with the believers in Damascus.

Acts 9:38

Joppa was not very far from Lydda, and when the believers in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him with the message, “Please hurry and come to us.”

1 Corinthians 11:18

In the first place, I have been told that there are opposing groups in your meetings; and this I believe is partly true. (

1 Corinthians 12:12

Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.

1 Corinthians 14:23

If, then, the whole church meets together and everyone starts speaking in strange tongues—and if some ordinary people or unbelievers come in, won't they say that you are all crazy?

1 Corinthians 4:17

For this purpose I am sending to you Timothy, who is my own dear and faithful son in the Christian life. He will remind you of the principles which I follow in the new life in union with Christ Jesus and which I teach in all the churches everywhere.

Ephesians 3:15

from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its true name.

James 2:7

They are the ones who speak evil of that good name which has been given to you.

1 Peter 4:14

Happy are you if you are insulted because you are Christ's followers; this means that the glorious Spirit, the Spirit of God, is resting on you.

1 Peter 4:16

However, if you suffer because you are a Christian, don't be ashamed of it, but thank God that you bear Christ's name.

1 John 2:27

But as for you, Christ has poured out his Spirit on you. As long as his Spirit remains in you, you do not need anyone to teach you. For his Spirit teaches you about everything, and what he teaches is true, not false. Obey the Spirit's teaching, then, and remain in union with Christ.

Revelation 3:18

I advise you, then, to buy gold from me, pure gold, in order to be rich. Buy also white clothing to dress yourself and cover up your shameful nakedness. Buy also some ointment to put on your eyes, so that you may see.