Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),
Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone whil
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecutio