Barnabas brings Paul to Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes · c. AD 43–44Acts 11:25–26

Antioch on the Orontes is modern Antakya

Barnabas goes to Tarsus to find Paul and brings him to Antioch, where the two teach the church for a whole year. There the disciples are first called Christians.

Sources

F. F. Bruce, Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977)
Rainer Riesner, Paul's Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998)
Eckhard J. Schnabel, Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2008)

²⁵Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, ²⁶and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.