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Acts 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas to Cyprus and Pisidia . The book containing this chapter is anonymous , but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of ...
Simon Niger is a person in the Book of Acts in the New Testament.He is mentioned in Acts 13:1 as being one of the "prophets and teachers" in the church of Antioch: . In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.
Elymas (/ ˈ ɛ l ɪ m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐλύμας; [1] c. 1st century AD), also known as Bar-Jesus (Ancient Greek: Βαριησοῦς, [1] Imperial Aramaic: Bar-Shuma, Latin: Bariesu), is a character described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13, [2] where he is referred to as a mágos (μάγος), which the King James Bible translates as "sorcerer" and false prophet ...
As Luke, the assumed author of the Acts of the Apostles, was an Antiochene, it is possible that Manahen was one of the "eyewitnesses and ministers of the word" who provided Luke details which that writer has in regard to Antipas and other members of the Herodian family (Luke 3:1, 19, 20; 8:3; 9:7-9; 13:31, 32; 23:8-12; Acts 12).
He is considered to have been one of the first bishops of Laodicea, [1] or the first bishop of Cyrene. [2]There is also a Lucius mentioned in Romans 16:21. There is no way of knowing for sure whether this is the same person, but Origen identifies the Lucius in Romans with the evangelist Luke (Comm. Rom. 10.39)
Jesus became God's son at his resurrection, God "begetting" Jesus to a new life by raising him from the dead – this was the earliest understanding, preserved in Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 1:3–4, and in Acts 13:33;
The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships, and the world they live in.Later in the first act, a dynamic, on-screen incident occurs, known as the inciting incident, or catalyst, that confronts the main character (the protagonist), and whose attempts to deal with this incident lead to a second and more dramatic situation, known as the ...
Barnes’ Notes on the Bible says that he was “surnamed Justus” or who “was called Justus”: “This is a Latin name, meaning just, and was probably given him on account of his distinguished integrity.” [citation needed] The Anglican Bible scholar J. B. Lightfoot “supposes that he [Joseph Barsabbas] was the son of Alphaeus and ...