Acts · Multiple choice

What does the name Barnabas mean?

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  • Servant of all
  • Son of encouragement
  • Son of thunder
  • Man of peace
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Son of encouragement

The apostles gave Joseph of Cyprus this name.

“And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,”

Acts 4:36 · KJV

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