Acts 11:26

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They stayed there a whole year. Every time the church came together, Barnabas and Saul met with them and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the followers of the Lord Jesus were called “Christ-followers” for the first time.

Cross References

1 Peter 4:16

But if you suffer because you are a “Christ-follower,” don’t be ashamed. You should praise God for that name.

Acts 26:28

King Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think you can persuade me to become a ‘Christ-follower’ so easily?”

1 John 2:27

Christ gave you a special gift. You still have this gift in you. So you don’t need anyone to teach you. The gift he gave you teaches you about everything. It is a true gift, not a false one. So continue to live in Christ, as his gift taught you.

1 Peter 4:14

When people say bad things to you because you follow Christ, consider it a blessing. When that happens, it shows that God’s Spirit, the Spirit of glory, is with you.

Ephesians 3:15

Every family in heaven and on earth gets its true name from him.

1 Corinthians 14:23

Suppose the whole church meets together and you all speak in different languages. If some people come in who are without understanding or don’t believe, they will say you are crazy.

1 Corinthians 12:12

A person has only one body, but it has many parts. Yes, there are many parts, but all those parts are still just one body. Christ is like that too.

1 Corinthians 11:18

First, I hear that when you meet together as a church you are divided. And this is not hard to believe

1 Corinthians 4:17

That is why I am sending Timothy to you. He is my son in the Lord. I love him and trust him. He will help you remember the way I live in Christ Jesus—a way of life that I teach in every meeting of the church wherever I am.

Acts 14:27

When Paul and Barnabas arrived, they gathered the church together. They told them everything God had used them to do. They said, “God opened a door for the non-Jewish people to believe!”

Matthew 28:19

So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Revelation 3:18

I advise you to buy gold from me—gold made pure in fire. Then you will be rich. I tell you this: Buy clothes that are white. Then you will be able to cover your shameful nakedness. I also tell you to buy medicine to put on your eyes. Then you will be able to see.

Acts 14:23

They also chose elders for each church and stopped eating for a period of time to pray for them. These elders were men who had put their trust in the Lord Jesus, so Paul and Barnabas put them in his care.

Acts 11:27

About that same time some prophets went from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 11:22

When the church in Jerusalem heard about this, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Acts 11:20

Some of these believers were men from Cyprus and Cyrene. When these men came to Antioch, they began speaking to people who were not Jews. They told them the Good News about the Lord Jesus.

Acts 6:5

The whole group liked the idea. So they chose these seven men: Stephen (a man with great faith and full of the Holy Spirit), Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus (a man from Antioch who had become a Jew).

Isaiah 65:15

Your names will be like curses to my chosen servants.” The Lord GOD will kill you, and then he will call his servants by a new name.

John 2:2

Jesus and his followers were also invited.

Acts 1:15

After a few days there was a meeting of the believers. There were about 120 of them. Peter stood up and said,

Acts 6:1

More and more people were becoming followers of Jesus. But during this same time, the Greek-speaking followers began to complain against the other Jewish followers. They said that their widows were not getting their share of what the followers received every day.

Acts 9:19

After he ate, he began to feel strong again. Saul stayed with the followers of Jesus in Damascus for a few days.

Acts 9:38

The followers in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda, which was not far away. So they sent two men, who begged him, “Hurry, please come quickly!”

Acts 11:29

The Lord’s followers decided that they would each send as much as they could to help their brothers and sisters who lived in Judea.

Acts 14:20

But when the followers of Jesus gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day he and Barnabas left and went to the city of Derbe.

Acts 14:22

In those cities they helped the followers grow stronger in their faith and encouraged them to continue trusting God. They told them, “We must suffer many things on our way into God’s kingdom.”

Acts 14:28

And they stayed there a long time with the Lord’s followers.

Acts 18:27

Apollos wanted to go to Achaia. So the believers in Ephesus helped him. They wrote a letter to the Lord’s followers in Achaia and asked them to accept Apollos. When he arrived there, he was a great help to those who had believed in Jesus because of God’s grace.

Acts 19:9

But some of them became stubborn and refused to believe. In front of everyone, they said bad things about the Way. So Paul left these Jews and took the Lord’s followers with him. He went to a place where a man named Tyrannus had a school. There Paul talked with people every day.

Acts 20:1

When the trouble stopped, Paul invited the Lord’s followers to come visit him. After encouraging them, he told them goodbye and left for Macedonia.

Acts 20:30

Also, men from your own group will begin to teach things that are wrong. They will lead some of the Lord’s followers away from the truth to follow them.

Acts 21:4

We found the Lord’s followers there and stayed with them for seven days. They warned Paul not to go to Jerusalem because of what the Spirit had told them.

James 2:7

And the rich are the ones who insult the wonderful name of Christ, the name by which you are known.