From the beginning of the year to the end of the year

Combining Acts Commentary and the New Year.

Acts 11:25 ...a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people.

At Antioch Syria (some 150 miles southeast of Tarsus, where Barnabas found Saul), Luke summarizes an entire year in their assembling with the church at Antioch and teaching the people. This is about AD 41-44 – before the dearth “in the days of Claudius Cæsar.” They were first called Christians here.

Deuteronomy 11:12 ...a land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

The promised land is described as a land for which the Lord careth, so that the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro throughout the whole earth, are on it all year long, from the beginning unto its end. casting all your care upon him; May we remember, as his people, that he careth for you, that his eyes watch over us all the year long. May we cast all our care upon him, and, among other things, find ourselves assembling with his people, edifying, exhorting, and teaching one another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching – and so much that we, like those at Antioch, be recognized as and called Christians.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Numbers 6:24-25