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And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.
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They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.
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But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.
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And [the] Lord's hand was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
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And the report concerning them reached the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go through as far as Antioch:
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who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;
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for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord.
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And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul.
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And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
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Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to Antioch;
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and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.