Agabus

Agabus was a prophet of the early church, probably one of the wider circle of disciples associated with the Jerusalem community, though Easton suggests he may have been among the seventy sent out by Jesus. He is mentioned twice in Acts. At Antioch, during the early ministry of Barnabas and Saul, Agabus came down from Jerusalem and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine would come over all the world, which the narrator notes was fulfilled in the days of Claudius Caesar (Acts 11:27–28). This prophecy prompted the Antiochene church to send relief to the brethren in Judea — an early instance of Gentile churches supporting the Jerusalem community.

Agabus appears again in Acts 21:10–11 at Caesarea, where he took Paul's belt, bound his own hands and feet with it, and declared prophetically that the Jews of Jerusalem would bind the man who owned the belt and deliver him to the Gentiles. The symbolic-enacted form of the prophecy reflects the tradition of the Hebrew prophets, and though Paul did not alter his course in response to the warning, the prediction was substantively fulfilled in his arrest and Roman imprisonment.