“ And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. ”
And he killed ... - He caused to be put to death with a sword, either by beheading, or piercing him through. The Roman procurators were entrusted with authority over life, though in the time of P...
And he (b) killed James the brother of John with the sword. (b) Violently, his cause not being heard at all.
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...
killed . Greek. anaireo. See note on Acts 2:23 . James . App-141. John . App-141. The last historical reference to John. sword . Death by the sword was regarded by the Rabbis as particularl...
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. He killed James the brother of John with the sword - This was James the greater, son of Zebedee, and must be distinguished from James the less,...
And he killed James— Thus was our Lord's prediction, relating to them, fulfilled, Matthew 20:23 . I know not how far we areto depend upon the tradition which we find cited by Eusebius, from a book...
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword - in all likelihood by beheading, which (as Lightfoot shows) was regarded by the...
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...
He killed James the brother of John with the sword. — Had the Apostle been tried by the Sanhedrin on a charge of blasphemy and heresy, the sentence would have been death by stoning. Decapitation sh...
Chapter 8 THE DEFEAT OF PRIDE. Acts 12:1-3 ; Acts 12:23-24 THE chapter at which we have now arrived is very important from a chronological point of view, as it brings the sacred narrative int...
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 spa...
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...
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 p...
A GREAT APOSTLE ‘James the brother of John.’ Acts 12:2 Within the broad circle of the Apostles’ characters, their lives, histories, examples, the follower of Christ finds experiences which he,...
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. This was James, the son of Zebedee, whom our Lord told, that he should be baptized with the baptism he was baptized with, Matthew 20:22 mea...
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. Ver. 2. And he killed James the brother ] So styled to distinguish him from the other James, called James the Less, kinsman to Christ, and...
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 cer...
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...
The Martyrdom of James; Peter's Imprisonment. 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of th...
Who had especially the care of the church at Jerusalem: one eminent amongst the apostles, and one of the sons of thunder, (or Boanerges), for his zealous and earnest preaching, and therefore the more...
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...
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...
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 ,...
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...
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...
Herod Persecutes the Church at Jerusalem and is Punished by God. Acts 12:1-25 James beheaded, Peter imprisoned:
1 Kings 19:1 ; 1 Kings 19:10 ; Hebrews 11:37 ; Jeremiah 26:23 ; Mark 10:35 ; Mark 10:38 ; Matthew 20:23 ; Matthew 4:21 ; Matthew 4:22
But Prayer Acts 12:1-11 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 ki...
James the brother of John — So one of the brothers went to God the first, the other the last of the apostles.