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Barnabas and Paul
How Barnabas and Paul are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Barnabas and Paul stood together.
When the disciples feared Saul, Barnabas brought him to the apostles. The Holy Ghost later set the two apart at Antioch, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul".
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles
Acts 9:27, King James Version
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them
Acts 13:2, King James Version
Where they cross: Acts 13:1-3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Acts 9:27
27But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
Acts 13:1-3
1Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
2As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
3And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
King James Version