36 Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,

27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached ^yboldly in the ^zname of Jesus.

Barnabas and Saul Sent Off

1 Now there were in the church at Antioch ⁱprophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger,¹ Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem ^jwith Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.