28One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius.)
Acts 11 marks a pivotal transition in the early church: the gospel officially crosses the ethnic boundary from Jews to Gentiles, and the Jerusalem church accepts it. Peter defends his visit to Cornelius’s household, recounting the vision and the Spirit’s descent. The chapter then
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