Acts 11:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine over all the world, and this took place during the reign of Claudius.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And one of them named Agabus stood up and prophesied through the [Holy] Spirit that a great and severe famine would come upon the whole world. And this did occur during the reign of Claudius.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

One of them, Agabus, stood up and, inspired by the Spirit, predicted that a severe famine would overtake the entire Roman world. (This occurred during Claudius’ rule.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

And one of them, named Agabus, rising up, signified through the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over the entire world, which did happen under Claudius.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit, that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius.

Acts 11:28 Cross References

Genesis 41:38

Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone else like this, one in whom is the spirit of God?”

Matthew 24:14

And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world, as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Matthew 24:7

For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places:

Luke 2:1

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

Luke 3:1

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,

Acts 18:2

There he found a Jew named Aquila from Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,

Acts 21:10

While we were staying there for several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.