11:25 to look for Saul. Paul had been in Tarsus, his home city, and in Syria and Cilicia (Gal. 1:21) about five years since going there from Jerusalem (9:30). 11:26 Christians. The word appears only here, in 26:28, and in 1 Peter 4:16. It means partisans, or followers, of Christ, “Christ’s people.” 11:28 a severe famine. Josephus reports that a famine occurred ca. A.D. 46. 11:30 elders. See note on 1 Tim. 3:1. 12:1 Herod. Herod Agrippa I, grandson of the Herod the Great who ruled at the birth of
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