18. When they heard this, they calmed down and glorified God, saying, "It seems, God has also given the Gentiles repentance unto life."

19. Meanwhile, those who were scattered from the persecution that followed Stephen went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to no one except the Jews.

20. And there were some of them, Cypriots and Cyrenians, who came to Antioch and spoke to the Greeks, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus.

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

22. Word of this reached the church of Jerusalem, and they commissioned Barnabas to go to Antioch.

23. When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and exhorted everyone to hold fast to the Lord with a sincere heart;

24. for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And a great number of people were gathered to the Lord.

25. Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.

26. For a whole year they gathered in church and taught a considerable number of people, and the disciples in Antioch for the first time began to be called Christians.

27. В те дни пришли из Иерусалима в Антиохию пророки.

28. И один из них, по имени Агав, встав, предвозвестил Духом, что по всей вселенной будет великий голод, который и был при кесаре Клавдии.

29. Тогда ученики положили, каждый по достатку своему, послать пособие братьям, живущим в Иудее,

30. что и сделали, послав собранное к пресвитерам через Варнаву и Савла.

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