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that there should be great dearth throughout all the world - the whole Roman empire.
which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar - Four famines occurred during his reign. This one in Judea and the adjacent countries took place, a.d. 41 [Josephus, Antiquities, 20.2, 5]. An important date for tracing out the chronology of the Acts. (But this subject is too difficult and extensive to admit of being handled here).