1566īarnabas appears mainly in Acts, a history of the early Christian church. Biblical narrative īarnabas curing the sick by Paolo Veronese, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, c. In the Syriac Bible, the phrase "son of consolation" is translated bara dbuya'a. Another is that it is related to the Hebrew word nabī ( נביא, Aramaic nebī) meaning "prophet". One theory is that this is from the Aramaic בר נחמה, bar neḥmā, meaning 'son (of) consolation'. (The "s" at the end is the Greek nominative case ending, and it is not present in the Aramaic form.) The Greek text of Acts 4:36 explains the name as υἱὸς παρακλήσεως, hyios paraklēseōs, meaning "son of encouragement" or "son of consolation". His Hellenic Jewish parents called him Joseph (although the Byzantine text-type calls him Ἰωσῆς, Iōsēs, 'Joses', a Greek variant of 'Joseph'), but when recounting the story of how he sold his land and gave the money to the apostles in Jerusalem, the Book of Acts says the apostles called him Barnabas. The feast day of Barnabas is celebrated on June 11.īarnabas is usually identified as the cousin of Mark the Evangelist on the basis of the term "anepsios" used in Colossians 4, which carries the connotation of "cousin." Orthodox tradition holds that Aristobulus of Britannia, one of the Seventy Disciples, was the brother of Barnabas. He is traditionally identified as the founder of the Cypriot Orthodox Church. Īlthough the date, place, and circumstances of his death are historically unverifiable, Christian tradition holds that Barnabas was martyred at Salamis, Cyprus. Clement of Alexandria and others in the early church, as well as a very few modern scholars have ascribed the Epistle of Barnabas to him, but it is a minority view. Tertullian named him as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, but this and other attributions are conjecture.
Barnabas and Paul successfully evangelized among the "God-fearing" Gentiles who attended synagogues in various Hellenized cities of Anatolia.īarnabas' story appears in the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul mentions him in some of his epistles. 46–48), and participated in the Council of Jerusalem ( c. They traveled together making more converts ( c. Named an apostle in Acts 14:14, he and Paul the Apostle undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts against the Judaizers. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Monastery of St Barnabas in Famagusta, Cyprusīarnabas ( / ˈ b ɑːr n ə b ə s/ Imperial Aramaic: ܒܪܢܒܐ Ancient Greek: Βαρνάβας), born Joseph ( Ἰωσήφ) or Joses ( Ἰωσής), was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. Red Martyr, Pilgrim's staff olive branch holding the Gospel of MatthewĬyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked as peacemaker
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