Bible passage: Acts 21:10-11
Prophet: Agabus
Written: During the first century
At the end of Paul's third missionary journey, he is greeted by a prophet named Agabus, who traveled from Jerusalem to Caesarea to inform Paul of a prophecy:
10 After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’” (Acts 21:10-11, NIV)
Upon hearing this, Paul's friends implore him not to return to Jerusalem. But, Paul replied that he was willing and ready to be arrested and to die for the Lord. He returns to Jerusalem and is later arrested, put on trial and then sent to Rome as a prisoner.
During that trip to Rome, Paul's fourth and final missionary journey, he continues to evangelize about Jesus.
Agabus is mentioned twice in the Bible, both times in the book of Acts, in connection to the two prophecies that he is recorded as giving. The other prophecy is found in Acts 11:27-30, where he prophesies about a famine that would occur in the Roman world, during the reign of Claudius.