# Acts 11:26

> and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

— Acts 11:26, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Antioch** (Syria · today Antakya) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/antioch

## When

- c. AD 40-44 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 11:28 announces the famine of Claudius's reign, which Tacitus (Annals XII.43) and Josephus (Antiquities XX.2) put in AD 46-48.

## Who ruled

- **Caligula**, emperor of Rome, AD 37-41 · Source: Suetonius, Caligula; Josephus, Antiquities XVIII-XIX
- **Claudius**, emperor of Rome, AD 41-54 · Source: Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
- **Herod Agrippa I**, king of Judea, AD 41-44 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.6-XIX.8, which dates his death to AD 44

## What happened

- **The disciples are called Christians** (AD 44)
  The name is not chosen by the followers: it is what the city starts calling them. A nickname from outside that stuck.

## See also

- 1 Peter 4:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-peter/4/16
- Acts 26:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/26/28
- 1 Peter 4:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-peter/4/14
- Matthew 28:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/28/19
- Acts 14:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/14/27
- 1 Corinthians 4:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/4/17
- 1 Corinthians 12:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/12/12
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/14/23

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## Questions linked to this verse

- In which city were the disciples first called Christians? — https://scriptoria.digital/en/questions/01a151d8-1aad-7ecd-8fd2-519e4cf4fc08

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/11/26
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/11
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).