ANTIOCH

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• Acts 11:19

  They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

• Acts 11:20

  But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

• Acts 11:21

  The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

• Acts 11:22

  The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

• Acts 11:23

  who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

• Acts 11:24

  For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

• Acts 11:25

  Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.

• Acts 11:26

  When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

• Acts 11:27

  Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

• Acts 11:28

  One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

• Acts 11:29

  As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

• Acts 11:30

  which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

• Acts 13:1

  Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

• Acts 13:14

  But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

• Acts 13:15

  After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

• Acts 13:16

  Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

• Acts 13:17

  The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.

• Acts 13:18

  For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

• Acts 13:19

  When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years.

• Acts 13:20

  After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

• Acts 13:21

  Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

• Acts 13:22

  When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

• Acts 13:23

  From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

• Acts 13:24

  before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

• Acts 13:25

  As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

• Acts 13:26

  Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

• Acts 13:27

  For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

• Acts 13:28

  Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

• Acts 13:29

  When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

• Acts 13:30

  But God raised him from the dead,

• Acts 13:31

  and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

• Acts 13:32

  We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

• Acts 13:33

  that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

• Acts 13:34

  “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

• Acts 13:35

  Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

• Acts 13:36

  For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

• Acts 13:37

  But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

• Acts 13:38

  Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

• Acts 13:39

  and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

• Acts 13:40

  Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:

• Acts 13:41

  ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”

• Acts 13:42

  So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

• Acts 13:43

  Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

• Acts 13:44

  The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

• Acts 13:45

  But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

• Acts 13:46

  Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

• Acts 13:47

  For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”

• Acts 13:48

  As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

• Acts 13:49

  The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.

• Acts 13:50

  But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

• Acts 13:51

  But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

• Acts 13:52

  The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

• Acts 14:19

  But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

• Acts 14:20

  But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

• Acts 14:21

  When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

• Acts 14:22

  confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

• Acts 14:26

  From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

• Acts 14:27

  When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

• Acts 14:28

  They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

• Acts 15:1

  Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

• Acts 15:2

  Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

• Acts 15:3

  They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

• Acts 15:4

  When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.

• Acts 15:5

  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

• Acts 15:6

  The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

• Acts 15:7

  When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

• Acts 15:8

  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

• Acts 15:9

  He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

• Acts 15:10

  Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

• Acts 15:11

  But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

• Acts 15:12

  All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

• Acts 15:13

  After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

• Acts 15:14

  Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.

• Acts 15:15

  This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

• Acts 15:16

  ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

• Acts 15:17

  That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.

• Acts 15:18

  All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’

• Acts 15:19

  “Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

• Acts 15:20

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• Acts 15:21

  For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

• Acts 15:22

  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

• Acts 15:23

  They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

• Acts 15:24

  Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

• Acts 15:25

  it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

• Acts 15:26

  men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Acts 15:27

  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

• Acts 15:28

  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

• Acts 15:30

  So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

• Acts 15:31

  When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.

• Acts 15:32

  Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.

• Acts 15:33

  After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

• Acts 15:34
• Acts 15:35

  But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

• Acts 18:22

  When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

• Galatians 2:11

  But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

• Galatians 2:12

  For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

• Galatians 2:13

  And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

• Galatians 2:14

  But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

• Galatians 2:15

  “We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

• 2 Timothy 3:11

  persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.