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23 who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and was exhorting all that, with purpose of heart, they should cleave to the Lord; 24 because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith; and a great multitude was added to the Lord. 25 And he departed to Tarsus to seek for Saul; 26 and, having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass that, even for a whole year, they met together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude; and that the disciples got the name "Christian" first in Antioch. 27 And in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch; 28 and one of them—Agabus by name—standing up, signified through the Spirit that there was about to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth; which, indeed, happened under Claudius. 29 And the disciples, according as any one of them was being prospered, determined, each of them, to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judaea; 30 which also they did, sending it to the elders through the hands of Barnabas and Saul. Acts 11:23-30, Worrell New Testament. Public domain.
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