Acts 11:28 “One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit tha…”

Acts 11:28

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.)

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And there stoode vp one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit, that there should be great famine throughout all the world, which also came to passe vnder Claudius Cesar.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

and one of them, by name Agabus, having stood up, did signify through the Spirit a great dearth is about to be throughout all the world — which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar —

Bible in Basic English

And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.

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Cross references

“Agabus”

Acts 21:10

Acts 21:10 · BSB

After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

“great”

1 Kings 17:1–16 Genesis 41:38 Genesis 41:30 Genesis 41:31 2 Kings 8:1 2 Kings 8:2

1 Kings 17:1–16 · BSB

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

Genesis 41:38 · BSB

So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”

Genesis 41:30 · BSB

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.

Genesis 41:31 · BSB

The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

2 Kings 8:1 · BSB

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 that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”

2 Kings 8:2 · BSB

So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.

“Claudius”

Luke 2:1 Luke 3:1

Luke 2:1 · BSB

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.

Luke 3:1 · BSB

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,

Also

Acts 18:2 Matthew 24:14

Acts 18:2 · BSB

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,

Matthew 24:14 · BSB

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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