Signified (εσημαινεν). Imperfect active in Westcott and Hort, but aorist active εσημανεν in the margin. The verb is an old one fro…

Named Agabus. This man is mentioned in only one other place in the New Testament. In Acts 21:10-11, he is mentioned as having foretold tha…

There stood up one of them named Agabus.—The same prophet appears again in Acts 21:10 as coming down from Jerusalem to Ca…

Here Luke uses the connective “in those days” just as he did at 1:15 and 6:1, to link parts of his narrative. Now he tells of certain “prophets” wh…

He signified by the Spirit. Luke plainly expresses that the Spirit of God was the author of this prophecy, so that we may know that it was…

And there stood up one of them named Agabus
] The same name as Hagaba in (Nehemiah 7:48) and as Hagabah,…

Previously, the followers of Christ were called disciples (that is, learners and scholars); but from that time, they were called Christians. The pr…