Acts 11:28

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One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

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The Roman Empire of the New TestamentThe Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, the political world of the New Testament.

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Antioch in Syria, reached by believers scattered from Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Cyrene, became a major Gentile-Christian center; Jerusalem, Judea’s capital, remained the needy mother church. Agabus came from Jerusalem’s wider prophetic circle and foretold a famine affecting the Roman world, prompting Antioch’s relief for Judean believers.

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Acts 11:28 mentions Antioch, Caesarea, Cyprus, Cyrene, Jerusalem, Joppa, Judea, Phoenicia and Tarsus.

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