Acts 11:24-27

²⁴Barnabas was a good man. The Holy Spirit controlled him and he really trusted God. He got lots more people there to follow Jesus.

²⁵After that Barnabas left Antioch and went to the town called Tarsus to look for Saul.

²⁶He found Saul there and took him back to Antioch. They stayed there for a whole year, and they met with the Christians in the church there, and they kept teaching them. A lot of people there followed Jesus, and it was in Antioch that other people first used the name Christians for the people that followed Jesus Christ.

²⁷At that time some Christian men came from Jerusalem to Antioch. They had the power to tell God’s messages.