Acts 11:24

full of the Holy Ghost and of faith The same character is given to Stephen (Acts 6:5), and a man of like character with that most eminent among the Greek-Jews would exert much influence in Antioch, where Greeks and Greek-Jews were the chief part of the population. It was in consequence of the persecution after Stephen s death that these preachers had come to Antioch, and some of them were probably of those Grecians who had been forward in the work for which Stephen was martyred.

and much people was added unto the Lord The sanction of the Church of Jerusalem to what had been done, as it was given by the joy and encouraging words of the "Son of Consolation," would quicken the zeal of these already earnest labourers for Christ.