<P> Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% live in Europe, 24% live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 13% live in Asia and the Pacific, and 1% live in the Middle East and North Africa . About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant (37%). Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the world's Christians . Other Christian groups make up the remainder . Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories . 280 million Christians live as a minority . </P> <P> The Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning "follower of Christ", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning "anointed one", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership . In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), meaning "(one who is) anointed ." In other European languages, equivalent words to Christian are likewise derived from the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish . </P> <P> The first recorded use of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11: 26, after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says: "(...) the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch ." The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26: 28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian ." The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4: 16, which exhorts believers: "Yet if (any man suffer) as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf ." </P> <P> Kenneth Samuel Wuest holds that all three original New Testament verses' usages reflect a derisive element in the term Christian to refer to followers of Christ who did not acknowledge the emperor of Rome . The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames . However Peter's apparent endorsement of the term led to its being preferred over "Nazarenes" and the term Christianoi from 1 Peter becomes the standard term in the Early Church Fathers from Ignatius and Polycarp onwards . </P>

Where does the word christian come from in the bible