Acts 21:10

10 And [while we] were staying [there] many days, a certain prophet {named} Agabus came down from Judea.

Acts 21:10 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 21:10

And as we tarried there many days
How many days is not said, it could not be very many, if the apostle got to Jerusalem by Pentecost, as he desired, ( Acts 20:6 Acts 20:15 Acts 20:16 ) ( Acts 21:4 Acts 21:7 )

there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus;
of whom mention is made in ( Acts 11:28 ) who is there said to come from Jerusalem, to Antioch, and here from Judea to Caesarea; he had been many years going about from place to place prophesying, for between that and this account must be a space of about sixteen or seventeen years.

Acts 21:10 In-Context

8 And on the next day we departed [and] came to Caesarea, and entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was [one] of the seven, [and] stayed with him.

9 ({Now this man had} four virgin daughters who prophesied.)

10 And [while we] were staying [there] many days, a certain prophet {named} Agabus came down from Judea.

11 And he came to us and took Paul's belt. Tying up his own feet and hands, he said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

12 And when we heard these [things], both we and the local residents urged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[while]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were staying")
• [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [c]. Literally "by name"