Acts 11:28

Agabus Claudius

²⁶ and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

²⁷ In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

²⁹ So the disciples, each according to his ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

³⁰ This they did, sending their gifts to the elders with Barnabas and Saul.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
KJV: And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar.
WEB: One of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
ASV: And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.
DARBY: and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.
BLB: And one of them named Agabus, having risen up, signified by the Spirit [that] a great famine is about to be over the whole world—which came to pass under Claudius.

ÅB: og en av dem, ved navn Agabus, sto opp og varslet ved Ånden at det skulle komme en stor hungersnød over hele jorderike; den kom også under Klaudius.
OTB: En av dem, ved navn Agabus, reiste seg og forutsa gjennom Ånden at en alvorlig hungersnød ville spre seg over hele den romerske verden. Dette skjedde under keiser Claudius' regjeringstid.
B1930: og en av dem, ved navn Agabus, stod op og varslet ved Ånden at det skulde komme en stor hungersnød over hele jorderike; den kom også under Klaudius.

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Acts 21:10
After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
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Acts 18:2
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
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Luke 2:1
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
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Luke 3:1
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
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1 Kings 17:1–16
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
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Genesis 41:30–31
but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
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Genesis 41:38
So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
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2 Kings 8:1–2
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”
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