Acts 11:19-30 - Developments In The Church In Antioch
19 Now those also who were dispersed by the persecution which arose on account of Stephen passed on as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no man except the Jews only. 20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they arrived at Antioch, spake to the Grecian proselytes, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a vast multitude believing, turned to the Lord. 22 And the report concerning them was heard in the ears of the church which was at Jerusalem: and they dispatched Barnabas, to go as far as Antioch. 23 Who, when he arrived there, and beheld the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all, with full purpose of heart to adhere to the Lord. 24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and a great multitude was added to the Lord. 25 Then went forth Barnabas to Tarsus, in search of Saul: 26 and having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that during a whole year they were jointly employed in that church, and taught a vast multitude, and they called for the first time in Antioch the disciples Christians.
27 Now there came down in those days prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the spirit that a great famine was coming upon the whole habitable globe: which also came in the reign of Claudius Caesar. 29 Then the disciples, as everyman had ability, determined every individual of them to send a sum to be distributed among the brethren who dwelt in Judea: 30 which also they did, sending it off to the presbyters by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.