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Acts 11:19

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Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.

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We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail.

But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.

The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad.

Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”),

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

Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.

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

They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.

This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.

Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter.




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