Acts 14:16
In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Lystra
- WHEN
- c. AD 46-48
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WHEN
c. AD 46-48
counted from the text
WHO RULED
- Claudius emperor of Rome AD 41-54
- Sergius Paulus proconsul of Cyprus AD 46-48
MEANWHILE
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AD 46-48 Roman Empire
Famine in the reign of Claudius
The famine that Acts 11:28 announces, and for which the church at Antioch sends relief to Jerusalem.
SOURCES
- date — The first journey, between the famine under Claudius and the Council of Jerusalem.
- Claudius — Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
- Sergius Paulus — Acts 13:7; inscriptions from Cyprus and Rome that name a Sergius Paulus
- Famine in the reign of Claudius — Tacitus, Annals XII.43; Suetonius, Claudius 18; Josephus, Antiquities XX.2.5
SEE ALSO
- Acts 17:30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Psalms 81:12 So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Psalms 147:20 He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
- Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Micah 4:5 Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
- Romans 1:21-25 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. …
- Ephesians 2:12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in…
- 1 Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
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