They continued on there way, stopping at Philip's house. He had four daughters who prophesied. So female prophets clearly existed in the New Testament church. After a while another prophet, Agabus, came. Earlier (Acts 11:28) had accurately predicted a famine.
Agabus gave a prophetic illustration of what would happen to Paul in Jerusalem. The people took this as a reason for Paul not to go to Jerusalem. As in the earlier part of the chapter, Paul saw things differently. He was quite prepared to suffer for Christ.
We learn something again about prophecy here. Prophecy is not fortune telling, not is it "ear tickling". When God speaks He speaks for a reason, and it is usually our response that He is interested in. Through Jonah He told the Ninevites that destruction was coming, but He did this in order to give them an opportunity to repent. We are so easily interested in what is going to happen, the condition of our hearts is much more important.
So Paul and his companions went on their way.
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