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As we tarried (επιμενοντων ημων). Genitive absolute. Note επ (additional) with μενω as in 12:16.
Many days

There came down. See Barnes on Acts 15:1.
Named Agabus. See Barnes on Acts 11:28.

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While Paul was at Caesarea, the Jerusalemite prophet Agabus (cf. 11:27– 28) came there. With the belt that held Paul’s outer cloak together, he tie…

A certain prophet. Though Luke does not plainly state it, I conjecture that this Agabus was the same one who is mentioned in the eleventh …

And as we tarried there many days
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson