Acts 11:26
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When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened, that for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageAntioch of Syria, where Barnabas brought Saul from nearby Tarsus, became the setting in which disciples were first called Christians. The wider network—Jerusalem and Judea, coastal Caesarea and Joppa, and Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Cyrene—traces how persecution scattered believers and God established a mixed Jewish-Gentile church.
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Acts 11:26 mentions Antioch, Caesarea, Cyprus, Cyrene, Jerusalem, Joppa, Judea, Phoenicia and Tarsus.
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