Acts 11:28 BSB — MannaFest

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.)

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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.

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 Cesar.

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Commentary

2 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts (1107)

"He foretold by the Spirit." Lest they think that the famine occurred because Christianity had appeared, the Holy Spirit also predicts this, because Christ too had predicted it. Not because "there will be a famine throughout all the world" as though it had to occur …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And there stood up one of them named Agabus,.... The same name with Hagaba in Neh 7:48 and with Hagabah, or Hagab in Ezr 2:45 and which the Septuagint there call Agaba and Agab. The name signifies a "grasshopper", Lev 11:22 or "a locust", 2Ch 7:13. In a book that goes under the name of Jerom (r), it is interpreted, "a messenger of tribulation"; respecting, it may be, not the true signification of the word, as the things which Agabus predicted, as the general dearth here, and the binding of the Apostle Paul, Act 21:

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Agabus - This prophet, of whom we know nothing, is once more mentioned, Act 21:10. He was probably a Jew, but whether converted now to Christianity we cannot tell. Great dearth throughout all the world - The words εφ’ ὁλην την οικουμενην probably here mean the land of Judea; though sometimes by this phrase the whole Roman empire is intended. In the former sense the disciples appear to have understood it, as the next verse informs us; for they determined to send relief to their brethren in Judea, which they could not have done had the famine been general.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀναστὰς	anastas	Having risen up	G450 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
εἷς	heis	one	G1520 →
ἐξ	ex	of	G1537 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	them	G846 →
ὀνόματι	onomati	named	G3686 →
Ἅγαβος	Hagabos	Agabus	G13 →
ἐσήμανεν	esēmanen	he signified	G4591 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
πνεύματος	pneumatos	Spirit [that]	G4151 →
λιμὸν	limon	a famine	G3042 →
μεγάλην	megalēn	great	G3173 →
μέλλειν	mellein	to ensue	G3195 →
ἔσεσθαι	esesthai	being	G1510 →
ἐφ᾽	eph᾽	over	G1909 →
ὅλην	holēn	all	G3650 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
οἰκουμένην,	oikoumenēn	world —	G3625 →
ἥτις	hētis	which	G3748 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	was	G1096 →
ἐπὶ	epi	in [the time of]	G1909 →
Κλαυδίου	Klaudiou	Claudius	G2804 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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…
leads to
- Romans 16:3–4
  Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
- 1 Corinthians 16:19
  The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.
- 2 Timothy 4:19
  Greet Prisca and Aquila, as well as the household of Onesiphorus.
- Acts 18:26
  And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him in and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Through
Luke 2:1
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
leads to
- 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,
Through
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,
leads to
- Genesis 49:10
  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
- Luke 23:6–11
  When Pilate heard this, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
- 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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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

What the record shows

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Acts

The record, by era

What the record shows

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Acts