Agabus
Americannoun
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The mouthpiece in King Jesus is one "Agabus the Decapolitan," writing at Alexandria near the end of the 1st Century A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
This man had four unmarried daughters who prophesied, and in his house Paul received a 'prophetic' warning of his fate from a certain Agabus who had come down from Jud�a.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
A famine had afflicted the country,—probably that which Agabus had foretold.
From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary
In which year there came to pass a most grievous famine in Syria, which is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles to have been foretold by the prophet Agabus.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
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 Emperor Claudius days.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
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