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ACTS 12:24 qeou/
Instead of qeou/ codex Vaticanus and the Latin Vulgate unite to read
kuri,ou, having been influenced by the expression a;ggeloj kuri,ou of
ver. Acts 12:23....
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Verse Acts 12:24. _BUT THE WORD OF GOD_] The Christian doctrine
preached by the apostles _grew_ and _multiplied_-became more
_evident_, and had daily _accessions_; for the spirit of _revelation_
rest...
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BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW ... - Great success attended it. The
persecutions had now ceased; and notwithstanding all the attempts
which had been made to crush it, stir the church increased and
flourishe...
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CHAPTER 12
_ 1. The great Persecution by Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1)._
2. The miraculous deliverance of Peter (Acts 12:6).
3. The Presumption and Judgment of Herod (Acts 12:18).
4. Barnabas and Sa...
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FATE OF THE SOLDIERS AND OF HEROD. For the soldiers, _cf. Acts 5:21_
ff. Here they are led away to be put to death. The story of Herod's
glorification and end is told by Josephus in a similar way; but...
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IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
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WORD. Greek. _logos._ App-121.
GREW. increased.
MULTIPLIED. Greek. _plethuno._ See Matthew 24:12....
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_But the word of God grew and multiplied_ Cp. Acts 6:7 and Acts 19:20.
"The seed is the word," said Christ, and so the Christian historian
tells us that the word was as seed, when it was cast forth di...
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DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I. GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
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_HEROD DIED A TERRIBLE DEATH ACTS 12:20-25:_ Herod was highly
displeased with people of Tyre and Sidon. But their country got its
food from the region that he ruled. Blastus, the king's chamberlain
ha...
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ΗΎΞΑΝΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΑΥΞΆΝΩ (G837) расти;
_impf._ "продолжало расти"
ΈΠΛΗΘΎΝΕΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΘΎΝΩ (G4129)
увеличиваться. Лука имеет в виду, что
увеличивалась эффективность
воздейс...
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GREW AND MULTIPLIED.— The expressions here used relate properly to
vegetables, and may be intended to signify, that the growth of the
gospel, that is, its prevalency in the minds and lives of some, wa...
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5.
AT JERUSALEM. Acts 12:1-24.
a.
Persecution of Herod. James beheaded. Peter imprisoned. Acts 12:1-5.
Acts 12:1
Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict
certain of the c...
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24. It was impossible that this providential and sudden death of
Herod, occurring so soon after the murders which he had committed in
Jerusalem, should not seriously affect the public mind. We are not...
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But the word of God grew and multiplied.
BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND MULTIPLIED - q.d., 'Not only was the
royal persecutor ignominiously swept from the stage, while his
intended victim was spared...
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17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the
history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out
of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...
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IMPRISONMENT OF PETER. DEATH OF HEROD
1-19. Persecution of the Church at Jerusalem by Herod. Martyrdom of
James the son of Zebedee. Peter's imprisonment and miraculous release.
The Church was persecu...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 12
PETER IN PRISON AGAIN, 12:1-5
V1 At that time, King Herod arrested some members of the *church. He
made them suffer very badly. V2 He ordered...
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BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND MULTIPLIED. — The words describe a
continuous expansion. The death of the chief persecutor left free
scope for the activity of the preachers of the gospel, of which they
w...
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Acts 12:23
CHAPTER 8
THE DEFEAT OF PRIDE.
Acts 12:1; Acts 12:23
THE chapter at which we have now arrived is very important from a
chronological point of view, as it brings the sacred narrative int...
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δὲ, marking the contrast, not only between the death of the
persecutor and the growth of the Word, but also between the
persecution and the vitality of the Church. ηὔξανε καὶ
ἐπληθ. imperfects, markin...
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BEYOND THEIR FAITH
Acts 12:13-25
Mark's mother was evidently a woman of property, as her house was
large enough to receive the many who felt that prayer was the key to
open Peter's prison. Rhoda is...
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Again persecution broke out in Jerusalem, and the first of the
apostolic band suffered martyrdom at the hands of Herod. A revealing
sentence concerning Herod is that which declares that when "he saw
t...
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God Deals With Herod
The next morning, as one might imagine, the prison was in turmoil. No
one knew what had happened to Peter. When Herod could not find him, he
had the guards executed. Roman law re...
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(12) But the (s) word of God grew and multiplied.
(12) Tyrants build up the Church by destroying it.
(s) Those that heard the word of God....
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But the word of God grew and multiplied. (25) And Barnabas and Saul
returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and
took with them John, whose surname was Mark.
What a sweet reli...
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We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of
the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the
manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in
var...
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24._And the word of God. _When the tyrant was once taken out of the
way the Church was suddenly delivered, as it were, out of the jaws of
the wolf. Therefore, though the faithful be accounted as sheep...
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Herod, to please the Jews, begins to persecute the assembly in that
city. We may remark here, that the company of believers at Antioch are
also called the assembly (church), which is the case nowhere...
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BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND MULTIPLIED. The number of those who were
converted by it, and embraced and professed it, increased; otherwise
the word is the same, whether the professors of it be more or...
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But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Ver. 24. _But the word of God_] The Church is invincible; and truth
may be oppressed a while, but not utterly suppressed. The Israelites
never increased so as...
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_But the word of God grew and multiplied_ Became more successful; and
in every place where it was preached, the number of disciples was
considerably multiplied, and their faith greatly established. So...
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GREW AND MULTIPLIED; the gospel was more successful, and the number of
believers greatly increased....
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The judgment of God upon Herod:...
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For a brief time again our eyes are turned toward Jerusalem and Peter,
though Peter's work is no longer taking the prominent place it did at
the beginning. Being the apostle to the Jews, he manifestly...
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BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND MULTIPLIED.
1. Sometimes we must wait for the Lord to avenge wrongs.
2. Sometimes we must wait until judgment day.
3. Here - the justice of God was swift.
4. Herod die...
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Herod had intended to bring Christianity to an end, but the church
instead only grew. Notice that the church grows when the word of the
Lord is spread by Christians. There is no substitute for persona...
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20-25 Many heathen princes claimed and received Divine honours, but it
was far more horrible impiety in Herod, who knew the word and worship
of the living God, to accept such idolatrous honours withou...
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GREW; the word of God is compared here to seed, as in our Saviour's
parable, MATTHEW 13:19. MULTIPLIED; the number of believers multiplied
through the word, which was sown, as seed is scattered abroad...
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24. It was impossible that this providential and sudden death of
Herod, occurring so soon after the murders which he had committed in
Jerusalem, should not seriously affect the public mind. We are not...
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Acts 12:24 But G1161 word G3056 God G2316 grew G837 (G5707) and G2532
multiplied G4129 (G5712)
Acts 5:39, Acts 6:7, Acts 11:21, Acts 19:20; Proverbs 28:28;...
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JERUSALEM FINALLY REJECTS THE APOSTLES, KINGSHIP CEASES IN ISRAEL, AND
THE WORD OF GOD GOES ON MULTIPLYING (12:1-24).
The new centre for world evangelisation having been set up
(unknowingly at the ti...
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Acts 12:24. BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND MULTIPLIED. In strong
contrast to the mournful end of the powerful enemy of the Christians,
the Church of Christ kept on increasing in numbers and in power. Th...
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GREW AND MULTIPLIED
(ηυξανεν κα επληθυνετο). Imperfect active and
passive. Cf. Acts 6:1. The reaction from the death of James and the
imprisonment of Peter....
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CONTENTS: Persecutions of the church and arrest of Peter. Prayer for
his deliverance and his miraculous release Death of Herod.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Herod, James, Peter, 2 soldiers, angel, Mary, Mark,...
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Acts 12:1. _About that time,_ when the word of the Lord prevailed so
remarkably in Antioch and the northern provinces, and when Paul and
Barnabas had brought alms to Jerusalem, as in Acts 12:25, _Hero...
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CONTINUED TO SPREAD. The excitement of all that was happening helped
to make people listen. Note how the word of God continued to spread so
rapidly among people who were no more spiritual than people...
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_And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary
the mother of John, whose surname was Mark._
JOHN MARK
1. Two names are here, one Jewish, the other Roman; the latter adopted
at f...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 12:20. For AND HEROD read _And_, or but, _he—i.e._, Herod.
HIGHLY DISPLEASED.—θυμομαχῶν, _in a hostile state of
mind_, in modern phrase, “contemplating hostilities” (Plumptre),...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 12:1
_Put _for _stretched, _A.V.;_ afflict _for _vex, _A.V. The phrase,
ABOUT THAT TIME, as in Acts 19:23, points to what had just before been
related (Meyer). The interposition of th...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Acts 12.
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex
certain of the church (Acts 12:1).
There are just a lot of Herods in the Bible and it i...
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2 Thessalonians 3:1; Acts 11:21; Acts 19:20; Acts 5:39; Acts 6:7;
Colossians 1:6; Daniel 2:24; Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 54:14;...
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HEROD'S DUPLICITY AND DEATH
Acts 12:18
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We come now to our final message concerning Peter's third
imprisonment. We are about to present the other side of the message.
We have seen...
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Observe, Herod the tyrant and persecutor being dead, the gospel
prospered, and was preached up and down with great success.
Persecutors, by their weak endeavours to pull down the church, do
build it u...