Shalom... Acts 11:26??? Antioch???

[PeaceDisciple]

I always wonder which Antioch because in the back of my KJV bible there is 2 Antiochs???

 

[WinBySurrender]

I always wonder which Antioch because in the back of my KJV bible there is 2 Antiochs???

It is the Antioch of Syria, where believers were first called Christians. The other Antioch is in ancient Pisidia and is the Antioch mentioned in Acts chapter 13.

 

[jlmagee]

It is the Antioch of Syria, where believers were first called Christians. The other Antioch is in anceitn Pisidia and is the Antioch mentioned in Acts chapter 13.

WBS is correct.

 

[ebia]

ANTIOCH (PLACE) [Gk Antiocheia]. A number of cities built by various Seleucid kings bore the name "Antioch." The two that had the most important impact on the peoples of the Bible were the Antioch in Pisidia (south central Turkey) and the Antioch on the Orontes River in Turkey near the modern border with Syria. (ABD)

It's the later - Antioch on the Orontes, then in Syria, that's the major one. It's now a small town but at the time the 3rd most important city in the Roman Empire after Rome and Alexandria, and (at the crossroads of the world) an incredibly cosmopolitan place.

 

[Radagast]

WBS is correct.

Acts 13 is actually explicit that it's "Antioch in Pisidia."

Acts 11 is the more important Antioch (then in Syria). See Wikipedia.