Acts 12:6 proagagei/n
There are four variant readings: proagagei/n (î74 A 8 36a 51 81 307 337 460 467 915 1874 al), prosagagei/n (B 33 254), prosa,gein (a Y 5 323 436 440 450 2180), and proa,gein (D E H L P most minuscules). In each pair of variant readings, the aorist tense is to be preferred to the present. As between the two verbs, a majority of the Committee regarded the compound with pro, to be more appropriate in the context.
Verse Acts 12:6. _SLEEPING BETWEEN TWO SOLDIERS, BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS_] Two soldiers guarded his person; his right hand being bound to the left hand of one, and his left hand bound to the right hand...
AND WHEN HEROD WOULD HAVE BROUGHT HIM FORTH - When he was about to bring him to be put to death. THE SAME NIGHT - That is, the night preceding. The intention of Herod was to bring him out as soon as...
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 Sau...
PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH BY HEROD AGRIPPA. PETER'S ESCAPE FROM PRISON. On Agrippa, see p. 610. His persecution of the Christians was according to his general policy. The persecutions of the faithful...
About this time Herod the king began to take hostile action to inflict injury on certain men of the Church. He killed James, John's brother, with the sword. When he saw that this gave pleasure to the...
IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
WOULD HAVE BROUGHT. was about to bring. THE SAME. that. SLEEPING. Greek. _koimaomai._ App-171. KEEPERS. guards. See Acts 5:23. KEPT. were keeping....
_And when Herod would have brought him forth_ Literally, "was about to bring him forth," and this should be expressed, because it is an additional note of the delay and lapse of time between the arres...
Acts 12:1-12. HEROD’S PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH. PETER’S MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE FROM PRISON...
ὍΤΕ ΔῈ ἬΜΕΛΛΕΝ ΠΡΟΑΓΑΓΕΙ͂Ν ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ Ὁ ἩΡΏΔΗΣ, _and when Herod was about to bring him forth_. This is an additional note of the lapse of some space between the arrest and the intended punishment of the A...
_PETER COULD NOT BE KEPT IN PRISON ACTS 12:6-12:_ The night before Peter was to be put on trial, he was asleep and bound by two chains. Two soldiers were guarding him and other soldiers were guarding...
ΉΜΕΛΛΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΛΛΩ (G3195) собираться. _Impf._ используется с _inf._ для выражения намерения, сохранившегося с момента в прошлом (MKG, 307). ΠΡΟΑΓΑΓΕΙΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΡΟΆΓΩ (G42...
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...
6. Time wore away in painful suspense until the Passover was gone by. (6) "_And when Herod was about to bring him forth, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, a...
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. AND WHEN HEROD WOULD HAV...
26 The name "Christian" is Latin in its termination, so seems to have been given by the Romans. It is mentioned only twice more (Act_26:28; 1Pe_4:16), and was a term of contempt. It is never used by t...
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 persecut...
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 ordere...
PETER WAS SLEEPING BETWEEN TWO SOLDIERS. — The picture of the calm repose of the Apostle as of one to whom God had given the sleep of His beloved (Psalms 127:2), undisturbed by the fear of coming suff...
τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ : “that very night,” _i.e._, the night before the trial. κοιμώμενος, _cf._ 1 Peter 5:7 and Psalms 127:2 : “for so He giveth His beloved sleep”: “and there too it is beautiful that Paul...
LOOSENED BONDS Acts 12:1-12 This Herod was the grandson of Herod the Great. He courted the goodwill of the Jews, though he was dissolute, cruel, and unscrupulous. How wonderful that God can spare fr...
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...
The Danger of Prayer While Herod waited for the end of Passover, the church waited in prayer. They asked God to be with Peter, whether in simply requesting that God help sustain his faith or have him...
With these two chains, according to the Roman custom, St. Peter must have been fastened to the two soldiers, that guarded him. Yet Peter slept secure, trusting in that Providence which sleepeth not....
Peter is sound asleep, flat on his back, chained to a soldier on either side, the stilly hours of dulcet slumber treading slowly on, anticipating the day of his bloody martyrdom. He must have had perf...
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. (7) And, behold, the angel...
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...
_A CHRISTIAN PRISONER_ ‘Peter therefore was kept in prison.’ Acts 12:5 There are prisons and prisons. If we could read each other’s hearts, I am afraid we should find many a disciple needing delive...
_THE CHURCH AT PRAYER_ ‘Prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him.’ Acts 12:5 ‘More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of,’ or that the Church dreams of either,...
6._When he was about to bring him forth. _It seemeth at the first blush that the Church prayeth to small purpose, for the day was now appointed wherein Peter should be put to death, and he is within o...
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...
AND WHEN HEROD WOULD HAVE BROUGHT HIM FORTH,.... The next morning; so he had determined not to dismiss him, but to expose him to the people, and to put him to such a death they should choose: THE SAM...
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. Ver. 6. _Peter was sleepin...
_Peter therefore_ Till the day of his execution came; _was kept in prison_ Under the continual guard of the fore-mentioned soldiers. _But prayer without ceasing_ (The original expression, προσευχη εκτ...
WOULD HAVE BROUGHT HIM; was about to bring him. SAME NIGHT; the night before the day of his intended execution. BETWEEN TWO SOLDIERS, BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS; each wrist was chained, after the Roman m...
AND WHEN HEROD WOULD HAVE BROUGHT HIM FORTH, THE SAME NIGHT PETER WAS SLEEPING BETWEEN TWO SOLDIERS, BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS; AND THE KEEPERS BEFORE THE DOOR KEPT THE PRISON....
The miraculous deliverance:...
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...
AND WHEN HEROD WAS ABOUT TO BRING HIM OUT, THAT NIGHT PETER WAS SLEEPING, BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS BETWEEN TWO SOLDIERS; AND THE GUARDS BEFORE THE DOOR WERE KEEPING THE PRISON. 1. It was almost time to...
"On the very night" On the very night before his scheduled trial and execution. "Peter was sleeping" It is difficult to sleep when the mind is filled with worry and apprehension, yet Peter does not se...
6-11 A peaceful conscience, a lively hope, and the consolations of the Holy Spirit, can keep men calm in the full prospect of death; even those very persons who have been most distracted with terrors...
BROUGHT HIM FORTH, to be put to death. THE SAME NIGHT: this is a night to be remembered, as that in which God delivered his Israel out of Egypt: when both were come to the utmost extremity, and at the...
6. Time wore away in painful suspense until the Passover was gone by. (6) " And when Herod was about to bring him forth, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, a...
Acts 12:6 And G1161 when G3753 Herod G2264 about G3195 (G5707) bring G4254 him G846 out G4254 ...
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 tim...
‘And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door kept the prison. And behold, an angel (or ‘messe...
Acts 12:6. THE SAME NIGHT. That is, the night before the day fixed for the execution. Peter was not missed by the guards till sunrise about six o'clock (see Acts 12:18). It was, then, in the fourth wa...
WAS ABOUT TO BRING HIM FORTH (Âημελλεν προσαγαγειν or προαγαγειν). The MSS. vary, but not αναγαγειν of verse Acts 12:4.THE SAME NIGHT (τη νυκτ εκεινη). Locative case,ON THAT (VERY) NIGHT .WAS S...
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,...
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...
THE NIGHT BEFORE. Putting a man to death on Passover week, would have been a _defiling_ of those holy days. PETER WAS SLEEPING BETWEEN TWO GUARDS. He was chained to each of them, while the other two s...
_Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church._ HEROD THE KING The previous life of this prince had been full of strange vicissitudes. The son of Aristobu...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 12:1. ABOUT THAT TIME (compare Acts 19:23).—_I.e._, before, or about the time of, the arrival of Barnabas and Saul at Jerusalem (Acts 11:30). The incidents recorded in this cha...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 23:26; 1 Samuel 23:27; 2 Timothy 1:16; Acts 21:33; Acts 28:20
Would have brought. Rev., correctly, was about to bring. Kept [ε τ η ρ ο υ ν]. See on reserved, 1 Peter 1:4. The imperfect, were keeping....
BUT PRAYER Acts 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Peter was in prison. Herod emboldened by the fact that his killing of James had pleased the Jews, proceeded to take Peter also. His purpose was to kill him a...
HEROD KILLS JAMES Acts 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There had come a time of comparative peace after the persecution which arose about Stephen, had subsided. Not long, however, could Satan fold his hands...
Peter was sleeping — Easy and void of fear; between two soldiers — Sufficiently secured to human appearance....
Observe, Peter continued in prison till the very night before Herod intended to bring him out to the people: And if they desired it, it is probable he intended to put him to death the next day. Learn...