The Famine Under Claudius

Gaius had held power for not quite four years when the emperor Claudius succeeded him. In his reign a famine pressed hard on the world. Even writers who are far from our faith have recorded it in their histories. So the prediction of the prophet Agabus in the Acts of the Apostles, that a famine was going to come over the whole world, was fulfilled. [a] Luke, in the Acts, notes the famine under Claudius and records that the brothers at Antioch sent help to those in Judea through Paul and Barnabas, each according to his means. Then he goes on to say: [b]