# General Information:

The words "They" and "they" refer to the believers in the church in Antioch ([Acts 11:27](../11/27.md)).

# by the hand of Barnabas and Saul

The hand is a synecdoche for the action of the whole person. Alternate translation: "by having Barnabas and Saul take it to them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])