Acts 11:23-28

²³When he arrived and saw for himself how God's grace was working, he was delighted. He encouraged all of them to completely dedicate themselves to God and to stay true.

²⁴Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit, and put his whole trust in God. Many people were brought to the Lord.

²⁵Then Barnabas went on to Tarsus to look for Saul,

²⁶and when he found him, he took Saul back with him to Antioch. Over the course of the next year they worked together with the church, teaching the message to crowds of people. It was in Antioch that the believers were first called “Christians.”

²⁷It was during this time that some prophets went from Jerusalem to Antioch.

²⁸One of them called Agabus stood up and gave a prophetic warning by the Spirit that there would be a terrible famine that would affect the known world. (This came true in the reign of Emperor Claudius.)