St. Barnabas 11. Events Leading Up to Assignment to Antioch.       Our series on the life of St. Barnabas has also brought us through the history of the Early Church. We are now up to about 35 AD, five years since Christ’s death and resurrection.       Luke sums up the next few years (probably 36-38 AD) as follows: “So the Church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied” ( Ac 9:31 ). Years of rest and growth for the Church.       Barnabas undoubtedly continued evangelizing over the next few years, but whether in Palestine or Antioch or elsewhere, we are not given the specifics.       In regards to Saul (not yet called Paul), now in his home town of Tarsus (modern day eastern Turkey), it may be about 38/39 AD when he had a visionary experience of being “caught up to the third h...