Barnabas
Barnabas
Barnabas 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.
Biblical narrative
!Barnabas curing the sick by [Paolo Veronese, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, c. 1566](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/St-barnab%C3%A9-veronese-rouen.jpg/250px-St-barnab%C3%A9-veronese-rouen.jpg)
Biblical narrative
The successful preaching of Christianity at Antioch to non-Jews led the church at Jerusalem to send Barnabas there to oversee the movement. He found the work so extensive and weighty that he went to Tarsus) in search of Paul (still referred to as Saul), "an admirable colleague", to assist him. Paul returned with him to Antioch and labored with him for a whole year. At the end of this period, the two were sent up to Jerusalem (44 AD) with contributions from the church at Antioch for the relief of the poorer Christians in Judea.
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