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ACTS 12:1
After evkklhsi,aj the Western text adds the information that it was
the church in Judea which Herod was persecuting (evn th|/ VIoudai,a|,
D 614 itp syrh with * copG67). In this way the foll...
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CHAPTER XII.
_Herod persecutes the Christians_, 1.
_Kills James_, 2.
_And casts Peter into prison_, 3, 4.
_The Church makes incessant prayer for his deliverance_, 5.
_An angel of God opens the pr...
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NOW ABOUT THAT TIME - That is, during the time that the famine
existed, or the time when Barnabas and Saul went up to Jerusalem. This
was probably about the fifth or sixth year of the reign of Claudiu...
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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 Sau...
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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...
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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...
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IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
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This chapter is. parenthesis, describing events in A.D. 14.
ABOUT. Greek. _kata._
TIME. season.
HEROD. Herod Agrippa I. App-109.
STRETCHED FORTH HIS HANDS. put to his hands. Compare Luke 9:62, sam...
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Acts 12:1. Herod's persecution of the Church. Peter's miraculous
deliverance from prison
1. _Now about that time_ The events here narrated must have shortly
preceded Herod's death, and so the chronol...
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ΚΑΤ' ἘΚΕΙ͂ΝΟΝ ΔῈ ΤῸΝ ΚΑΙΡΌΝ, _now about that
time_. The events narrated in this chapter must have occurred very
shortly before Herod’s death. The date will therefore be about A.D.
43.
ἩΡΏΔΗΣ Ὁ ΒΑΣΙΛΕ...
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Acts 12:1-12. HEROD’S PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH. PETER’S
MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE FROM PRISON...
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_JAMES DIED FOR THE CAUSE OF CHRIST ACTS 12:1-5:_ One man can do
either much harm or much good toward the cause of Christ. King Herod
Agrippa I harassed some in the church and caused terrible sufferin...
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ΚΑΤ' ΕΚΕΊΝΟΝ ΔΈ ΤΟΝ ΚΑΙΡΌΝ "а в это
время". Это было, вероятно, в начале
правления Ирода Агриппы, в 41 или в
начале 42 г. н.э. (FAP, 104-8; ВВС; ABD 1:98100).
ΈΠΈΒΑΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΒΆΛΛΩ (G...
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HEROD THE KING— The Syriac version reads, _Herod the king, surnamed
Agrippa:_ Josephus styles him _Agrippa;_ which probably was his Roman,
as _Herod_ was his Syrian name. He was the grandson of Herod...
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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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XII: 1, 2. The historian does not follow Barnabas and Saul in their
tour through the districts in Judea, but, leaving them for awhile,
introduces a very interesting episode concerning events that were...
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Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex
certain of the church.
Herod Persecutes the Church, and Puts James, the Brother of John, to
Death (12:1-2)
NOW ABOUT THAT TIME -...
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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...
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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 persecut...
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ABOUT THAT TIME] viz. when relief was sent to the Church of Jerusalem
(Acts 11:29). The death of Herod (Acts 12:23) fixes the date as 44
a.d. Herod the king] i.e. Herod Agrippa I, son of Aristobulus ...
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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 ordere...
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XII.
(1) HEROD THE KING. — The previous life of this prince had been full
of strange vicissitudes. The son of Aristobulus and Bernice, grandson
of Herod the Great, brother of the Herodias who appears...
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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 into
contact wit...
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_Persecution by Herod; St. Peter's deliverance_. κατʼ
ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν : “about that time,” or
more precisely “at that time,” Rendall, _cf._ Romans 9:9, so in
Genesis 18:10; Malachi 3:5;...
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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...
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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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James Killed and Peter Seized By Herod
Sometime near the time Barnabas and Saul were taking the gift from
Antioch to Jerusalem, Herod Agrippa decided to inflict pain on certain
members of the church....
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Now (1) about that time (a) Herod the king stretched forth [his] hands
to vex certain of the church.
(1) God gives his Church peace only for a short time.
(a) This name Herod was common to all those...
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_Herod. Agrippa, made king by the emperor Caius. See Josephus vi. 18.
Jewish Antiquities, chap. viii. and lib. xix. chap. 5. put to death
James the great, brother to John. (Witham) --- This man was th...
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MARTYRDOM OF JAMES
1, 2. This Herod Antipas was the grandson of the King Herod reigning
when our Savior was born, and notorious for slaying the infants of
Bethlehem, and even himself, while the innoce...
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Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex
certain of the church. (2) And he killed James the brother of John
with the sword. (3) And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he
pr...
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CONTENTS
Herod persecutes the Church. James is killed by him, and Peter put
into Prison. An Angel of the Lord opens the Prison Doors, and delivers
him. Herod 's awful Death....
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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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1.Here followeth new persecution raised by Herod. We see that the
Church had some short truce, that it might, as it were, by a short
breathing, recover some courage against the time to come, and that...
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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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NOW ABOUT THAT TIME,.... That the famine was in Judea, and Saul and
Barnabas were sent thither with what the church at Antioch had
collected.
HEROD THE KING; not Herod the great that slew the infants...
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Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth _his_ hands to vex
certain of the church.
Ver. 1. _Now about that time_] That the famine lay sore upon the
Church. Afflictions seldom come single. T...
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_Now about that time_ When Saul and Barnabas were preparing to set out
to Jerusalem, to carry thither what had been collected by the
Christians at Antioch; _Herod stretched forth his hands to vex cert...
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HEROD; Herod Agrippa, grandson of Herod the Great, mentioned in
Matthew 2:1.
VEX; trouble, persecute....
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NOW ABOUT THAT TIME HEROD THE, KING STRETCHED FORTH HIS HANDS TO VEX
CERTAIN OF THE CHURCH....
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HEROD PERSECUTES THE CHURCH AT JERUSALEM AND IS PUNISHED BY GOD. Acts
12:1
James beheaded, Peter imprisoned:...
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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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NOW ABOUT THAT TIME HEROD THE KING STRETCHED OUT _HIS_ HAND TO HARASS
SOME FROM THE CHURCH.
1. Adam Clarke explains who this king is. " This was Herod Agrippa,
the son of Aristobulus, and grandson of...
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STRETCHED:
Or, began...
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"Now about that time" "Perhaps the time referred to is the time of the
famine, predicted by Agabus. Perhaps the time is the time Paul and
Barnabas went to Jerusalem. It is near the year 44 A.D." (Rees...
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1-5 James was one of the sons of Zebedee, whom Christ told that they
should drink of the cup that he was to drink of, and be baptized with
the baptism that he was to be baptized with, Matthew 20:23....
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ACTS CHAPTER 12 ACTS 12:1 King Herod persecutes the Christians, kills
James, and imprisons Peter, who, upon the prayers of the church, is
delivered by an angel. ACTS 12:20 Herod, in his pride assuming...
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XII: 1, 2. The historian does not follow Barnabas and Saul in their
tour through the districts in Judea, but, leaving them for awhile,
introduces a very interesting episode concerning events that were...
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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 tim...
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‘Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict
certain of the church.'
Note Luke's description of him as ‘the king'. It was, of course
strictly correct, but here it draws out that...
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Acts 12:1. NOW ABOUT THAT TIME. The events related in this twelfth
chapter took place in the year 44. Paul and Barnabas were then on
their mission, bearing alms from the Christians in Antioch to the
C...
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ABOUT THAT TIME
(κατ' εκεινον τον καιρον). Same phrase in Romans
9:9. That is, the early part of A.D. 44 since that is the date of
Herod's death. As already suggested, Barnabas and Saul came down f...
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HEROD
Herod Agrippa I, grandson of Herod the Great,
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 2:1), _
a strict observer of the law, and popular with the Jews, see (Acts
12:21).
Herod Agrippa II, Paul's Agrippa,...
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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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KING HEROD. _Herod Agrippa._ See note on Matthew 2:1. Herod ruled all
of Palestine. Even though he lived a wicked life, he was very strict
in following Jewish ritual. He was hostile to Christianity, b...
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_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...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 12:1 HEROD was Herod Agrippa I, a grandson of
Herod the Great (see note on Matt. 2:1). He ruled over various
territories in Judea until his kingdom reached the full extent of his
gra...
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_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...
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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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Acts 4:30; Acts 9:31; John 15:20; John 16:2; Luke 22:53;...
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That time [ε κ ε ι ν ο ν τ ο ν κ α ι ρ ο ν]. More
correctly, that juncture. See on ch. Acts 1:7. The date is A. D. 44.
Herod the king. Called also Agrippa, and commonly known as Herod
Agrippa I, the...
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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...
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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...
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About that time — So wisely did God mix rest and persecution in due
time and measure succeeding each other. Herod — Agrippa; the latter
was his Roman, the former his Syrian name. He was the grandson o...
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Observe here, 1. Satan, the grand enemy of the church of God, never
wants instruments for carrying on his persecuting designs against the
church; he had many Pharaohs in the Old Testament times, bitte...