Sentence examples for barnabas from inspiring English sources

Mark's leaving caused Barnabas and Paul to separate, for Paul declined Barnabas' insistence on giving Mark another chance (15 37 39).

Subsequently, Mark sailed to Cyprus with Barnabas, never to be mentioned again in Acts.

In Asia Minor Paul and his coworker Barnabas were taken to be gods in mortal form because of their miracles.

This line is seen in the Letter of Barnabas, the apologist Justin's (c. 100 c. 165) Dialogue with Trypho, and the 3rd-century Against the Jews ascribed to the North African bishop Cyprian (c. 200 258).

A delegation, led by the apostle Paul and his companion Barnabas, was appointed to confer with the elders of the church in Jerusalem.

This argument, recorded about ad 110 in the Epistle of Barnabas, held that because God had created the world in six days and rested on the seventh (Genesis 1) and because 1,000 years is a day in God's sight (Psalm 89/90), the world must labour 6,000 years before the sabbatical millennium of peace, abundance, and joyful rest for the Lord's weary would begin.

I have to row four miles to the next community to find fish," says Barnabas Teete, a 60-year-old fisherman.

The popular American television soap opera Dark Shadows (1966 71) featured a lovelorn vampire, Barnabas Collins.

Deprived of a father before birth, he soon lost his mother as well, for within two years she married a second time; her husband, the well-to-do minister Barnabas Smith, left young Isaac with his grandmother and moved to a neighbouring village to raise a son and two daughters.

For nine years, until the death of Barnabas Smith in 1653, Isaac was effectively separated from his mother, and his pronounced psychotic tendencies have been ascribed to this traumatic event.

His death comes weeks before a Tim Burton-directed version of Dark Shadows is due to be released, starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins.