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ACTS 12:8-9
Between verses Acts 12:8 and Acts 12:9 copG67 adds the sentence,
“But he [the angel] seized him [Peter] and drew him along and to...
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Verse Acts 12:9. _HE - WIST NOT_] He _knew_ not; from the Anglo-Saxon,
[A.S.], _to know_. He supposed himself to be in a dream....
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AND WIST NOT - Knew not.
THAT IT WAS TRUE - That it was real.
BUT THOUGHT HE SAW A VISION - He supposed that it was a representation
made to his mind similar to what he had seen before. Compare Acts...
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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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HIM. The texts omit.
WIST. knew. Greek. _oida._ App-132.
TRUE. Greek. _alethes._ App-175.
BY. through. Greek. _dia._
THOUGHT. was thinking.
SAW. Greek. _blepo._ App-133.
VISION. Greek. _horama,_...
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αὐτῷ omitted with אABD. _Vulg_. represents it....
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Acts 12:1-12. HEROD’S PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH. PETER’S
MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE FROM PRISON...
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_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...
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AND WIST NOT— _And knew not._...
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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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See notes one verse 7...
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And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true
which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. AND HE WENT
OUT, AND FOLLOWED [HIM], [ autoo (G846) is probably not genuine,...
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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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12:9 know (a-10) Conscious knowledge....
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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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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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AND WIST NOT THAT IT WAS TRUE... — The kind of introspective
analysis of the Apostle’s consciousness suggests the thought that he
was himself, possibly through some intermediate channel, St. Luke’s
in...
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ἐδόκει δὲ ὅραμα βλέπειν : even those who regard
the narrative as unhistorical can scarcely say that the writer cannot
understand how to distinguish between an actual fact and a vision;
moreover, this...
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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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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...
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Peter thinks he is in a trance and sees a vision. Now they pass by the
first and second guard and come to the great iron gate that leads out
into the city. Peter is soliloquizing:
“Though I have esca...
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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...
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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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9._He knew not that it was true. _He did not think that it was a vain
or false visor, as Satan doth oftentimes delude men with jugglings;
but_true _is taken in this place for that which is done natura...
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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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AND HE WENT OUT AND FOLLOWED HIM,.... He came out from between the two
soldiers, and out of that apartment in the prison, in which he was,
and followed the angel where he led him:
AND WIST NOT THAT I...
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And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which
was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.
Ver. 9. _And wist not that it was true_] So Psalms 126:1. God is
often bette...
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_And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him_ Greek, επεστη,
_stood over him; and a light shined in the prison_ Εν τω
οικηματι, _in the house_, the whole house in which he was
confined; _and he sm...
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WIST NOT; knew not.
THAT IT WAS TRUE; that it was a real event, as distinguished from a
vision....
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AND HE WENT OUT AND FOLLOWED HIM, AND WIST NOT THAT IT WAS TRUE WHICH
WAS DONE BY THE ANGEL, BUT THOUGHT HE SAW A VISION....
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The miraculous deliverance:...
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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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SO HE WENT OUT AND FOLLOWED HIM, AND DID NOT KNOW THAT WHAT WAS DONE
BY THE ANGEL WAS REAL, BUT THOUGHT HE WAS SEEING A VISION.
1. What is happening? Is it a dream? Is it real?
2. Peter did not unde...
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Peter thinks he is involved in some sort of vision, (remember such had
happened to him in Acts 10:1.) "Peter may have felt as the proverb
states, ‘Don't pinch me,. may be dreaming'" (Reese p. 433). Th...
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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...
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The greatnesss and suddenness of the deliverance was such, as it
amazed him, it seemed incredible unto him: not that he questioned
God's power or godliness; but knowing that he was to suffer for
Chris...
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Acts 12:9 So G2532 out G1831 (G5631) followed G190 (G5707) him G846
and G2532 not G3756 know...
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‘And he went out, and followed, and he did not know that what was
done by the angel was true, but thought he saw a vision.'
Peter did as he was bid as though in a dream. He went out and followed
the...
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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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Acts 12:9-10. AND HE WENT OUT, AND FOLLOWED HIM.... WHEN THEY WERE
PAST THE FIRST AND THE SECOND WARD, THEY CAME UNTO THE IRON GATE THAT
LEADETH UNTO THE CITY. Silently, without a word, the radiant Me...
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WIST NOT
(ουκ ηιδε). Past perfect of οιδα used as imperfect, did not
know.FOLLOWED
(ηκολουθε). Imperfect active, kept on following as the angel
had directed (verse Acts 12:8). That it was true (ο...
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ANGEL
See note, (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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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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HE THOUGHT HE WAS SEEING A VISION. That is, he thought he was
dreaming. THE GATE OPENED FOR THEM BY ITSELF. The outer gate of the
prison. NOW I KNOW. After the angel leaves him outside on the street,...
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_And behold the angel of the Lord came upon him._
THE TENDER OFFICES OF ANGELS TOWARDS THE SAINTS OF GOD
It enhances the moral dignity of the Christian that he should have
such exalted beings in cons...
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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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_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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2 Corinthians 12:1; Acts 10:17; Acts 10:3; Acts 11:5; Acts 26:19;...
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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...