Acts 21:11

Agabus binds his own hands and feet with Paul's belt, prophesying that the Jews will likewise bind Paul and hand him over to the Gentiles. A vivid sign foretells Paul's arrest.

Cross-references · 28

• Acts 21:33Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
• Jer 13:1–11Yahweh says to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
• 1 Sam 15:27–28As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
• 1 Kgs 22:11Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
• Ezek 24:19–25The people said to me, Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
• Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
• Jer 19:10–11“Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,
• 2 Kgs 13:15–19Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows”; and he took bow and arrows for himself.
• 1 Kgs 11:29–31At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.
• Heb 3:7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
• Acts 13:2As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
• Acts 28:25When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,
• Acts 22:25When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”
• Acts 28:20For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
• Acts 16:6When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
• Acts 26:29Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
• Eph 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• 2 Tim 2:9in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
• Matt 27:1–2Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
• Matt 20:18–19“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
• Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
• Hos 12:10I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
• Eph 3:1For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
• Acts 28:17After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
• Acts 24:27But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
• Heb 10:34For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
• 1 Pet 1:12To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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