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Acts 11:27

Good News Translation

About that time some prophets went from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.

For this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and messengers; they will kill some of them and persecute others.’

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.

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

In the church at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon (called the Black), Lucius (from Cyrene), Manaen (who had been brought up with Governor Herod), and Saul.

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, the place where they had been commended to the care of God's grace for the work they had now completed.

Then the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, decided to choose some men from the group and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose two men who were highly respected by the believers, Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas,

The messengers were sent off and went to Antioch, where they gathered the whole group of believers and gave them the letter.

Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, spoke a long time with them, giving them courage and strength.

When he arrived at Caesarea, he went to Jerusalem and greeted the church, and then went to Antioch.

‘This is what I will do in the last days, God says: I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message; your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams.

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.

He had four unmarried daughters who proclaimed God's message.

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.

The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.

In the church God has put all in place: in the first place apostles, in the second place prophets, and in the third place teachers; then those who perform miracles, followed by those who are given the power to heal or to help others or to direct them or to speak in strange tongues.

The gift of proclaiming God's message should be under the speaker's control,

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him in public, because he was clearly wrong.

It was he who “gave gifts to people”; he appointed some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers.




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