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Barnabas (/ ˈ b ɑːr n ə b ə s /; Ancient Greek: Βαρνάβας; Syriac: ܒܪܢܒܐ), born Joseph (Ἰωσήφ) or Joses (Ἰωσής), [1] was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Levite.
Barnabas is both a masculine given name and a surname. As a given name, it is a New Testament name which means "son of the prophet". [ 1 ] Variants of the name include Barnaba , Barnaby , [ 2 ] and Barnabás , a Hungarian masculine given name.
The Gospel of Barnabas, as long as the four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) combined, contains 222 chapters and about 75,000 words.[3]: 36 [4] Its original title, appearing on the cover of the Italian manuscript, is The True Gospel of Jesus, Called Christ, a New Prophet Sent by God to the World: According to the Description of Barnabas His Apostle; [3]: 36 [5]: 215 The author ...
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 ...
The Epistle of Barnabas (Greek: Βαρνάβα Ἐπιστολή) is an early Christian Greek epistle written between AD 70 and 132. The complete text is preserved in the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus , where it appears at the end of the New Testament , following the Book of Revelation and before the Shepherd of Hermas .
Representation of Barabbas by James Tissot (1836–1902). Barabbas (/ b ə ˈ r æ b ə s /; Biblical Greek: Bαραββᾶς, romanized: Barabbās) [1] was, according to the New Testament, a prisoner who rebelled against the Roman occupying forces and who was chosen over Jesus by the crowd in Jerusalem to be pardoned and released by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast.
The Epistle of Barnabas, written at a date estimated as between 80 and 120 [44] or at latest 130, [45] gives an allegorical interpretation of the number 318 (in Greek numerals τιη’) in the text of Book of Genesis 14:14 as intimating the crucifixion of Jesus by viewing the numerals ιη’ (18) as the initial letters of Ἰησοῦς ...
Barnabás is a Hungarian masculine given name. It is a New Testament name which means "son of consolation" and was the name of St. Barnabas, an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. [3] People bearing the name Barnabás include: Barnabás Berzsenyi, (1918–1993), Hungarian fencer