Antioch in Syria is where the disciples were first called Christians.
In Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
The Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul.
Pisidian Antioch is a different city.
Antioch on the Orontes, in Syria, was the third city of the empire and the mission base of the early church. Men of Cyprus and Cyrene preached the Lord Jesus to the Hellenists there. A great number believed. The church in Jerusalem sent Barnabas. He fetched Saul. They taught for a year. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. From that church the Spirit set Barnabas and Saul apart. There is another Antioch, in Pisidia, where Paul preached on the first journey. This page is the Syrian city unless a verse says Pisidian.
- Prophets came down from Jerusalem. Agabus foretold a famine. The disciples sent relief by Barnabas and Saul.
- The council letter was delivered to Antioch. Judas and Silas encouraged the brothers.
- Paul’s journeys begin and end their reports in this church. It is not a footnote to Jerusalem.
The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
The Spirit set Barnabas and Saul apart there.
Pisidian Antioch is the other city.
- Syrian Antioch is where the disciples were first called Christians.
- The gospel reached Hellenists there before the apostles planted it.
- Barnabas and Saul taught the church a whole year.
- The first missionary sending was from this church.
- Pisidian Antioch is a different city on the first journey.
- Relief for Jerusalem went out from Antioch.
- The City – Antioch in Syria, on the Orontes.
- The Name – Christians, first used here.
- The Teachers – Barnabas and Saul, a year.
- The Sending – The Spirit set them apart.
- The Other – Pisidian Antioch.
- The Gift – Relief sent to Jerusalem.
- Acts 11:26 – “In Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.”
- Acts 13:1-3 – “Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers… Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul… they sent them off.”
- Acts 11:27-30 – Agabus foretold famine. The disciples sent relief to the brothers in Judea by Barnabas and Saul.
- Acts 13:14 – They came to Antioch in Pisidia, the other Antioch.
In Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
This is the Syrian city. Pisidian Antioch is the other one, on the first journey. Do not merge them.
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