Acts Chapter 11:19-30

Outline

1. Peter and the Beginnings of the Church in the Holy Land (chs. 1-12)

• "Throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria" (1:1 -- 9:31; see 9:31 and note)

• Introduction (1:1-2)
• Christ's resurrection ministry (1:3-11)
• The period of waiting for the Holy Spirit (1:12-26)
• The filling with the Spirit (ch. 2)
• The healing of the lame man and the resultant arrest of Peter and John (3:1;4:31)
• The community of goods (4:32;5:11)
• The arrest of the 12 apostles (5:12-42)
• The choice of the Seven (6:1-7)
• Stephen's arrest and martyrdom (6:8;7:60)
• The scattering of the Jerusalem believers (8:1-4)
• Philip's ministry (8:5-40)

• In Samaria (8:5-25)
• To the Ethiopian eunuch (8:26-40)
• Saul's conversion (9:1-31)

B.    "As far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch" (9:32;12:25;11:19;)

• Peter's ministry on the Mediterranean coast (9:32;11:18)

• To Aeneas and Dorcas (9:32-43)
• To Cornelius (10:1;11:18)
• The new Gentile church in Antioch (11:19-30)
• Herod's persecution of the church and his subsequent death (ch. 12)

                                          I.         Paul and the Expansion of the Church from Antioch to Rome (chs. 13-28)

 .      "Throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia" (13:1 -- 15:35; see 16:6 and note)

• Paul's first missionary journey (chs. 13-14)
• The Jerusalem conference (15:1-35)

A.    "Over to Macedonia" (15:36;21:16;16:9;)

• Paul's second missionary journey (15:36;18:22)
• Paul's third missionary journey (18:23;21:16)

B.    "To Rome" (21:17;28:31;28:14;)

• Paul's imprisonment in Jerusalem (21:17;23:35)

• Arrest (21:17;22:29)
• Trial before the Sanhedrin (22:30;23:11)
• Transfer to Caesarea (23:12-35)
• Paul's imprisonment in Caesarea (chs. 24-26)

• Trial before Felix (ch. 24)
• Trial before Festus (25:1-12)
• Hearing before Festus and Agrippa (25:13;26:32)
• Voyage to Rome (27:1;28:15)
• Two years under house arrest in Rome (28:16-31)

Acts Chapter 11:19-30

19 Meanwhile, the believers who had been scattered during the persecution after Stephen’s death traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of Syria. They preached the word of God, but only to Jews. 

20 However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus. 

21 The power of the Lord was with them, and a large number of these Gentiles believed and turned to the Lord. 

22When the church at Jerusalem heard what had happened, they sent Barnabas to Antioch. 

23 When he arrived and saw this evidence of God’s blessing, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord. 

24 Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in faith. And many people were brought to the Lord. 

25 Then Barnabas went on to Tarsus to look for Saul. 

26 When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians.) 

27 During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch. 

28 One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius.) 

29 So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could. 

30 This they did, entrusting their gifts to Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the church in Jerusalem.