Acts 11:29

29 So each of the disciples, according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea.

Acts 11:29 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:29

Then the disciples
That were at Antioch, every man
according to his ability;
whether rich or poor, master or servant, everyone according to the substance he was possessed of; whether more or less, which was a good rule to go by:

determined to send relief to the brethren which dwelt in Judea;
either because that Agabus might have suggested, that the famine would be the severest in those parts; or because that the Christians there had parted with their substance already, in the support of one another, and for the spread of the Gospel in other parts; and therefore the Christians at Antioch, in gratitude to them for having received the Gospel, and Gospel ministers from them, resolved to help them with their temporal things, when in distress.

Acts 11:29 In-Context

27 In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

28 Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius. 41-54; there was a famine a.d. 47-48.

29 So each of the disciples, according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea.

30 This they did, sending it to the elders by means of Barnabas and Saul.