Today, I am reading and commenting on Acts 11-13.

Reading today’s account is interesting.  We do not exactly know how long it was between Peter baptizing Cornelius’ household and the believers from Cyprus and Cyrene preaching to Gentiles in Antioch.  However, it is apparent that even after the Jerusalem Church recognized that the Gospel was for the Gentiles as well as the Jews it took some time for the Believers to begin reaching out to them.  The Church in Jerusalem sent Barnabas to teach these new Believers the basics of what Jesus taught.  Once Barnabas had given them a crash course, he realized they needed a deeper grounding in what we call the Old Testament than he felt able to provide.  So, he went to Tarsus to get Saul, who had been a student of Gamaliel.  Here is the thing: these new converts did not know anything about the Old Testament.  So, Barnabas, one of the men responsible for the early Church realizing that the Gentile converts did not need to follow the entirety of Mosaic Law (r even most of it), went and got Saul, the other one of the men responsible for that, to teach them the Old Testament.  Those who think we can follow Jesus without learning what the Old Testament says about God, have not actually read the New Testament either.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

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