One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Antioch. Every Antioch in the Bible
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Antioch
Ἀντιόχεια
- verses
- 14
- first named
- Acts 6:5
- last named
- Galatians 2:11
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 36.23°N · 36.17°E
Antioch on the Orontes (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Antioch in the text
Antioch, located in Syria, was a significant city in the early spread of Christianity. After the persecution that followed Stephen's martyrdom, some believers from Cyprus and Cyrene came to Antioch and preached the gospel to the Hellenists (Greeks) there (Act.11.19-20). The church in Jerusalem sent Barnabas to Antioch, who encouraged the believers and brought Saul (Paul) there to teach (Act.11.22-26).
It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians (Act.11.26). The city became a hub for missionary activity, with Paul and Barnabas being sent out from Antioch on their first missionary journey (Act.13.1-3; 14:26). The church in Antioch also played a crucial role in the Jerusalem Council, which addressed the issue of Gentile believers and the Mosaic Law (Act.15.1-35).
Antioch was the home church of several notable figures, including the prophet Agabus (Act.11.27-28) and the evangelist Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch (Act.6.5). The apostle Peter visited Antioch, where Paul confronted him about his inconsistent behavior regarding Gentile believers (Galatians 2:11-14).
The church in Antioch became a model of a multicultural, mission-oriented congregation, demonstrating the power of the gospel to transcend cultural barriers and unite believers in Christ. Its strategic location and the fervor of its believers made Antioch a launching pad for the spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.
Relations
Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Antioch is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
14 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (13) and Galatians (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 14, across 2 books. The name is written 15 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Acts 14At Antioch, the church heard the report of the completed work and received Paul and Barnabas for a long stay.
- Acts 15Antioch received the letter, rejoiced at its message, and remained a place of teaching and preaching.
- Galatians 2In Antioch, Cephas withdrew from Gentile table-fellowship and was opposed to his face in front of everyone.
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