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25 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,(A) 26 and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”(B)

27 At that time prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.(C) 28 One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine over all the world, and this took place during the reign of Claudius.(D) 29 The disciples determined that, according to their ability, each would send relief to the brothers and sisters living in Judea;(E) 30 this they did, sending it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.(F)

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