Circa 60 AD: before Rome burned down, before Jerusalem was destroyed, as the early believers who knew that Jesus was the Messiah were making their way across the eastern Mediterranean lands spreading the good news, there was a distinction between the Gentile and Jewish believers.
About 300 miles north of Jerusalem, in the city of Antioch, in today's Turkey, Barnabas and Saul were teaching. For at least a year they remained in Antioch and worshipped with a great number of people.
Seeing so many people following the way that Jesus taught, they were given the name Christians, probably by the Bishop of Antioch to incorporate the Gentiles and the Jews into one church.
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