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Barnabas

Early Christian disciple and bishop

  • Fame62.1
  • Momentum5.5
  • Religious Figures rank#127
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  • Fame62.1
  • Momentum5.5
  • Religious Figures rank#127
  • Wikipedia31.5K
Lived 1–61, aged 60
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    Aged 60
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

A Cypriot Levite who walked beside Paul through the earliest missionary push into Gentile territory, then vanished from the record after a split — yet church tradition kept pinning texts to his name and claiming he founded a branch of Orthodoxy an ocean away from where the sources go silent.

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Born Joseph or Joses, he appears in Acts as a companion to Paul the Apostle, traveling through Hellenized Anatolian cities to evangelize among Gentiles who lingered at synagogue edges. He joined Paul at the Council of Jerusalem around 49 AD, a hinge moment for the young church. Tertullian later named him author of the Epistle to the Hebrews; the Epistle of Barnabas carried his name in Codex Sinaiticus and was attributed to him by Clement of Alexandria, though both are conjecture. Christian tradition holds he was martyred at Salamis, Cyprus — historically unverifiable — and calls him founder of…

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Barnabas
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And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.
— *Acts 4:36-37 NKJV.
Barnabas
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But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out
— *Acts 4:36-37 NKJV.
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Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul. And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch.
— *Acts 4:36-37 NKJV.
Barnabas
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This separation [of Paul from Barnabas], rather than being scandalous, can, on the contrary, serve as a great edification for us...
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62.1
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Momentum5.5
Historical24.9
Now attention37.9
Source confidence60.0
Completeness60.0
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