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Acts 11:26-30 English Standard Version (ESV)

26. and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

27. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

28. And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).

29. So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

30. And they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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