Acts 11:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”

Cross References

Isaiah 65:15

You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse, and the Lord God will put you to death, but to his servants he will give a different name.

Matthew 28:19

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

John 2:2

Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,

Acts 11:20

But among them were some men of Cyprus and Cyrene who, on coming to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists also, proclaiming the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:22

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

Acts 11:27

At that time prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 11:29

The disciples determined that, according to their ability, each would send relief to the brothers and sisters living in Judea;

Acts 14:20

But when the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the city. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

Acts 14:22

There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

Acts 14:23

And after they had appointed elders for them in each church, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe.

Acts 14:27

When they arrived, they called the church together and related all that God had done with them and how he had opened a door of faith for the gentiles.

Acts 14:28

And they stayed there with the disciples for some time.

Acts 18:27

And when he wished to cross over to Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. On his arrival he greatly helped those who through grace had become believers,

Acts 19:9

When some stubbornly refused to believe and spoke evil of the Way before the congregation, he left them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 20:1

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left for Macedonia.

Acts 20:30

Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.

Acts 21:4

We looked up the disciples and stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.

Acts 26:28

Agrippa said to Paul, “Are you so quickly persuading me to become a Christian?”

Acts 6:1

Now during those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

Acts 6:5

What they said pleased the whole community, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, together with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.

Acts 9:19

and after taking some food, he regained his strength. For several days he was with the disciples in Damascus,

Acts 9:38

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, “Please come to us without delay.”

1 Corinthians 11:18

For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.

1 Corinthians 12:12

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:23

If, therefore, the entire church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

1 Corinthians 4:17

For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and trustworthy child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Ephesians 3:15

from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.

James 2:7

Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you?

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory, which is the Spirit of God, is resting on you.

1 Peter 4:16

Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name.

1 John 2:27

As for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you, so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Revelation 3:18

Therefore I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white robes to clothe yourself and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.