Barnabas,
the Apostle
Prepared
by:
Ahmad
Shammazadeh
Barnabas
/ˈbɑːrnəbəs/
(Greek:
Βαρνάβας),
born Joseph,
was an early
Christian, one of the prominent Christian
disciples in Jerusalem.[2]
According to Acts
4:36 Barnabas was a Cypriot
Jew.
Named an apostle
in Acts
14:14, he and Paul
the Apostle undertook missionary journeys together and defended
Gentile
converts against the Judaizers.[3]
They traveled together making more converts (c
45–47), and participated in the Council
of Jerusalem (c
50).[4]
Barnabas and Paul successfully evangelized among the "God-fearing"
Gentiles who attended synagogues
in various Hellenized
cities of Anatolia.[2]
Barnabas'
story appears in the Acts
of the Apostles, and Paul mentions him in some of his
epistles.[3]
Tertullian
named him as the author of the Epistle
to the Hebrews,[3]
but this and other attributions are conjecture.[5]
Clement
of Alexandria and some scholars have ascribed the Epistle
of Barnabas to him, but his authorship is disputed.[6][7]
Although
the date, place, and circumstances of his death are historically
unverifiable, Christian tradition holds that Barnabas was martyred
at Salamis,
Cyprus, in AD 61. He is traditionally identified as the founder
of the Cypriot
Orthodox Church. The feast
day of Barnabas is celebrated on June 11.[3]
Barnabas
is usually identified as the cousin of Mark
the Evangelist on the basis of Colossians 4.[8]
Some traditions hold that Aristobulus
of Britannia, one of the Seventy
Disciples, was the brother of Barnabas.
The
Muhammadans have also a Gospel in Arabic, attributed to saint
Barnabas, wherein the history of Jesus Christ is related in a manner
very different from what we find in the true Gospels, and
correspondent to those traditions which Muhammad has followed in his
Quran.
Of this Gospel the Moriscoes in Africa have a translation in Spanish;
and there is in the library of Prince Eugene
of Savoy, a manuscript of some antiquity, containing an Italian
translation of the same Gospel, made, it is to be supposed, for the
use of renegades. This book appears to be no original forgery of the
Muhammadans, though they have no doubt interpolated and altered it
since, the better to serve their purpose; and in particular, instead
of the Paraclete
or Comforter, they have, in this apocryphal gospel, inserted the word
Periclyte, that is, the famous
or illustrious,
by which they pretend their prophet was foretold by name, that being
the signification of Muhammad in Arabic; and this they say to justify
that passage in the Quran where Jesus Christ is formally asserted to
have foretold his coming under his other name Ahmed,
which is derived from the same root as Muhammad and of the same
import.[10]
From
the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas
Related
verse of Holy Qur’n
added to this article
by
Ahmad Shammazadeh:
O’
Children of Israel! Indeed I am apostle of Allah to you. To confirm
what is before me of the Torah, and to give the good news of an
apostle,
who will come after me, whose name is Ahmad.
Yet when he brought them manifest proofs, they said, ‘this is a
plain magic’
(Surat Al-Saff: 6) (Qur’an’s
translation in English by: Ali Quli Qarai)
Barnabas
has
gathered
and written
a Bible on
his time, as
like
as four famous
bibles, but because he
proofs
the
Mohammad’s
prophecy
in his bible, fathers of Christian Church put it aside from
the beginning of progressing of Christianity,
to prevent
Christians to
know Barnabas
story!!
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