Acts 12:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished. ”

• Acts 12:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Were astonished - They were now convinced that it was Peter, and they were amazed that he had been rescued. As yet they were of course ignorant of the manner in which it was done.

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• Acts 12:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 faithf...

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• Acts 12:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  continued . Greek. epimeno. See note on Acts 10:48 . were astonished . were astounded. Greek. existemi. See Acts 2:7 ; Acts 8:9 ; Acts 9:21 ; Acts 10:45 .

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• Acts 12:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door , and saw him, they were astonished.

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• Acts 12:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished. But Peter continued knocking (delay being dangerous): and when they had opened the door, an...

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• Acts 12:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 pers...

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• Acts 12:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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. Rhod...

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• Acts 12:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Acts 12:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of t...

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• Acts 12:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But Peter continued knocking ,.... That they might come to him, and let him in; beginning to be impatient, and being very desirous of seeing his friends, as well as being in danger of being taken up...

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• Acts 12:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door , and saw him, they were astonished. Ver. 16. But Peter continued knocking ] He flung not away in displeasure, because not at firs...

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• Acts 12:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But Peter continued knocking Though they delayed to open to him; and when At length, several of them, it seems, going out together; they had opened the door, and saw him That it really was he;...

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• Acts 12:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 manifestl...

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• Acts 12:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Peter's Imprisonment and Deliverance.       5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto...

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• Acts 12:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Peter continued knocking; Peter might be unwilling to have his entrance into the house deferred, 1. Out of fear of being taken again, and his life concerned upon it. 2. Out of an earnest desire...

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• Acts 12:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 12:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 i...

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• Acts 12:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 ,...

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• Acts 12:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 Aris...

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• Acts 12:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 inter...

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• Acts 12:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Peter in the house of Mary:

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