Lexicon :: Strong's G921 - barnabas

Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus by birth, the one the apostles called Barnabas (which is translated Son of Encouragement),

Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

News about them reached[fn] the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to travel[fn] as far as Antioch.

They did this, sending it to the elders by means of Barnabas and Saul.

After they had completed their relief mission, Barnabas and Saul returned to[fn] Jerusalem, taking along John who was called Mark.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, a close friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and urging them to continue in the grace of God.

Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

But the Jews incited the prominent God-fearing women and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

The apostles Barnabas and Paul tore their robes when they heard this and rushed into the crowd, shouting,

After the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

After Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, Paul and Barnabas and some others were appointed to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this issue.

The whole assembly became silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul describe all the signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.

“we have unanimously decided to select men and send them to you along with our dearly loved Barnabas and Paul,

But Paul and Barnabas, along with many others, remained in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming the word of the Lord.

They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed off to Cyprus.

Or do only Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from working?

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.

When James, Cephas,[fn] and John ​— ​those recognized as pillars ​— ​acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Then the rest of the Jews joined his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you greetings, as does Mark, Barnabas’s cousin (concerning whom you have received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),