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Andδὲwhile we were stayingἐπιμενόντωνmanyπλείουςdays,ἡμέραςa certainτιςprophetπροφήτηςnamedὀνόματιAgabusἍγαβοςcame downκατῆλθένfromἀπὸJudea.τῆς Ἰουδαίας
Acts 21:10
Study it in the app“And while we were staying many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.”
With the Greek beneath
Acts 21:10, word by word
- while we were stayingἐπιμενόντωνepimenontōn
stay
To remain longer in a place.
Where else “epimenontōn” appears- manyπλείουςpleious
many
A great number of people or things.
Where else “pleious” appears- daysἡμέραςhēmeras
day
A span counted on the calendar: “on the third day,” “forty days.”
Where else “hēmeras” appears- prophetπροφήτηςprophētēs
prophet
Someone who speaks for God.
Where else “prophētēs” appears- namedὀνόματιonomati
name
The word by which a person or thing is called, which often says who they are.
Where else “onomati” appears- AgabusἍγαβοςHagabos
Agabus
Agabus, a prophet from Jerusalem among the believers.
Where else “Hagabos” appears- came downκατῆλθένkatēlthen
come down
Come down, go down from a higher place.
Where else “katēlthen” appears- JudeaἸουδαίαςIoudaias
Judea
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Places in this verse
Judea
Today: southern Israel and West Bank, Judean hills
The southern region of Israel, including Jerusalem; in Jesus' time it was a Roman province.
Jesus was born there, and John the Immerser preached there (Matt 2:1; 3:1). Jesus told his disciples to be witnesses in Judea (Acts 1:8).
The context
9And this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
10 · This verse (above)
11And coming to us and taking Paul’s belt and binding his own feet and hands, he said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man whose belt this is, and they will hand him over into the hands of the nations.’”
To study Acts 21 in a group
1. What it says
What does the prophet Agabus do, and what do the believers who hear him ask of Paul? (vv. 10-12)
2. What it means
What does Paul answer those who weep to keep him from going up to Jerusalem, and how do they react? (vv. 13-14)
3. How I live it
Paul's friends wanted to protect him, but in the end said "The Lord's will be done" (v. 14). When is it hard for you to let someone you love go?