Bible Strands
Acts 21:10
After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes events in Caesarea after Paul’s group remained with Philip for several days, immediately preceding the arrival of the prophet Agabus.
The words — The text uses πλείους (pleious) = many and κατῆλθεν (katēlthen) = came down to establish the duration of the stay and Agabus’s physical descent from Judea.
The thread — Agabus previously delivered a famine prediction in Acts 11:28, and his arrival here follows the Spirit’s warning given to the disciples in Tyre in Acts 21:4.
Why it lands — The verse requires readers to track the continuity of Spirit-inspired prophecy across Paul’s travels and to observe how divine warnings are recorded before imminent suffering.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
Cross-references
- 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.)
- Acts 21:4 We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.
- Acts 20:16 Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.
- Acts 21:7 When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.