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Therefore, if God gave them the same gift as he gave us after we had come to put our trust in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who was I to stand in God's way?"
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On hearing these things, they stopped objecting and began to praise God, saying, "This means that God has enabled the Goyim as well to do t'shuvah and have life!"
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Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution which had arisen over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch; they spoke God's word, but only to Jews.
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However, some of these, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, when they arrived at Antioch, began speaking to the Greeks too, proclaiming the Good News of the Lord Yeshua.
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The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people trusted and turned to the Lord.
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News of this reached the ears of the Messianic community in Yerushalayim, and they sent Bar-Nabba to Antioch.
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On arriving and seeing for himself the grace of God at work, he was glad; and he encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with their whole hearts;
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for he was a good man, full of the Ruach HaKodesh and trust.
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Then Bar-Nabba went off to Tarsus to look for Sha'ul;
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and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They met with the congregation there for a whole year and taught a sizeable crowd. Also it was in Antioch that the talmidim for the first time were called "Messianic."
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During this time, some prophets came down from Yerushalayim to Antioch;