Biblical places
Antioch on the Orontes
The city where believers were first called Christians, and the mission base of the early church from which Paul and Barnabas's first, second, and third missionary journeys began.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Antakya (Türkiye)
- 36.2023, 36.1613
The ancient city's ruins overlap with the modern city of Antakya, causing a slight coordinate deviation, but it is confirmed to be the same area.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Acts 6:5
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Galatians 2:11
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
2 Timothy 3:11
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Acts 11:19
Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
Acts 11:20
And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts 11:22
Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
Acts 11:26
And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts 11:27
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.