Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
that there should be great dearth throughout all the world—the whole Roman empire.
which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar—Four famines occurred during his reign. This one in Judea and the adjacent countries took place, AD 41 [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 20.2,5]. An important date for tracing out the chronology of the Acts. (But this subject is too difficult and extensive to admit of being handled here).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 11:28:
Acts 11:27
Acts 12:20
Acts 21:10
1 Corinthians 7:26
1 Corinthians 12:10
Galatians 2:10
1 Timothy 1:18
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