tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12543231.post1169390822684263806..comments2008-08-13T03:22:40.678-05:00Bill Heromanhttps://profiles.google.com/107244228841768771174noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12543231.post-66827110221027343362008-08-13T03:22:00.000-05:002008-08-13T03:22:00.000-05:00No, I think your right on there - (bringing relief early) - the famine was probably one of the reasons the apostles left Jerusalem shortly after. I posted in another part of this blog that they began showing up in historical documentation of other parts of the world between 44 and 50 AD. They probalby took the death of Agrippa 1 that it was a sign to "get the heck outta dodge"! <BR/><BR/>Consequently, when Paul and Barnibas brought money, there wouldn't have been that many people left to feed. Acts 8:1 says that everyone except the apostles left Jerusalem. - This was right before the conversion of Saul. (Saul was converted around 36 AD - Caiaphas was deposed in 36 AD and he's named with Annas as "kindred of the high preist". in Acts 4:6. <BR/><BR/>Stephen is stoned in 36 AD too because he says to the counsel before being stoned that "..and they have slain them which showed before the coming of the Just One; of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderes..." He spacifically says to this counsel that they have killed Jesus. So by default - he's got to be talking to Annas and Caiaphas. <BR/><BR/>Also, you might have to reconsider your time of famine; and / or the probability that there was more than one famine. In Matt 24:7 - famines is plural. Either way, it had already hit Tyre and Sidon before Agrippa 1 died and if it wasn't in Jerusalem it was probably starting. <BR/><BR/>So since we know Agrippa died in 44AD - "the famine" - or at least aspects of it had hit certain areas for a long enough period of time to bring people from Tyre and Sidon to Agrippa 1.Katnoreply@blogger.com