Acts 13:2
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
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Study Note
The moment when 'the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them' during worship and fasting at Antioch represents the first explicitly Spirit-directed missionary commissioning in Acts. The Antioch church's practice of 'ministering to the Lord and fasting' as the context for prophetic direction models a pneumatology of attentive availability rather than managerial planning. The Spirit speaks in the first person ('Separate me... I have called them') — one of the few instances in Acts where the Spirit is represented as speaking with direct divine authority, supporting high pneumatology. The mission that follows (Acts 13-14) becomes the template for all subsequent Pauline missionary journeys, making this moment the institutional origin of the Gentile mission and the model for Spirit-led church strategy.
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And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'
And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
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