Acts 13:1New Messianic Version BibleNow there were in the church that was at Antioch [speedy as a chariot] certain prophets and teachers; as Bar-Nabba [son of rest], and Shim’on [he who hears] that was called Niger [black], and Lucius [light: bright: white] of Cyrene [supremacy of the bridle], and Menachem [comforter], which had been brought up with Herod [heroic] the tetrarch, and Sha’ul [desired]. See the chapter |
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius [as god-river] Caesar [venerable], Pontius Pilate [armed with a spear] being governor of Y’hudah [praised], and Herod [heroic] being tetrarch of Galil [circuit, district], and his brother Philip [friend of horses] tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis [a rugged region], and Lysanias [that drives away sorrow] the tetrarch of Abilene [grassy meadow],