Acts 11:26

New Living Translation

When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians.)

Cross References

Isaiah 65:15

Your name will be a curse word among my people, for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you and will call his true servants by another name.

Matthew 28:19

Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

John 2:2

and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration.

Acts 1:15

During this time, when about 120 believers were together in one place, Peter stood up and addressed them.

Acts 11:20

However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:22

When the church at Jerusalem heard what had happened, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Acts 11:27

During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 11:29

So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could.

Acts 14:20

But as the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

Acts 14:22

where they strengthened the believers. They encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.

Acts 14:23

Paul and Barnabas also appointed elders in every church. With prayer and fasting, they turned the elders over to the care of the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

Acts 14:27

Upon arriving in Antioch, they called the church together and reported everything God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles, too.

Acts 14:28

And they stayed there with the believers for a long time.

Acts 18:27

Apollos had been thinking about going to Achaia, and the brothers and sisters in Ephesus encouraged him to go. They wrote to the believers in Achaia, asking them to welcome him. When he arrived there, he proved to be of great benefit to those who, by God’s grace, had believed.

Acts 19:9

But some became stubborn, rejecting his message and publicly speaking against the Way. So Paul left the synagogue and took the believers with him. Then he held daily discussions at the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 20:1

When the uproar was over, Paul sent for the believers and encouraged them. Then he said good-bye and left for Macedonia.

Acts 20:30

Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following.

Acts 21:4

We went ashore, found the local believers, and stayed with them a week. These believers prophesied through the Holy Spirit that Paul should not go on to Jerusalem.

Acts 26:28

Agrippa interrupted him. “Do you think you can persuade me to become a Christian so quickly?”

Acts 6:1

But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. The Greek-speaking believers complained about the Hebrew-speaking believers, saying that their widows were being discriminated against in the daily distribution of food.

Acts 6:5

Everyone liked this idea, and they chose the following: Stephen (a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit), Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas of Antioch (an earlier convert to the Jewish faith).

Acts 9:19

Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days.

Acts 9:38

But the believers had heard that Peter was nearby at Lydda, so they sent two men to beg him, “Please come as soon as possible!”

1 Corinthians 11:18

First, I hear that there are divisions among you when you meet as a church, and to some extent I believe it.

1 Corinthians 12:12

The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:23

Even so, if unbelievers or people who don’t understand these things come into your church meeting and hear everyone speaking in an unknown language, they will think you are crazy.

1 Corinthians 4:17

That’s why I have sent Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of how I follow Christ Jesus, just as I teach in all the churches wherever I go.

Ephesians 3:15

the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.

James 2:7

Aren’t they the ones who slander Jesus Christ, whose noble name you bear?

1 Peter 4:14

If you are insulted because you bear the name of Christ, you will be blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you.

1 Peter 4:16

But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his name!

1 John 2:27

But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.

Revelation 3:18

So I advise you to buy gold from me—gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich. Also buy white garments from me so you will not be shamed by your nakedness, and ointment for your eyes so you will be able to see.