Acts 12:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) ”

Acts 12:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And because he saw that it pleased the Jews - This was the principle on which he acted. It was not from a sense of right; it was not to do justice, and to protect the innocent; it was not to disc...
Acts 12:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(2) And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) (2) It is an old habit of tyrants to attain the favour of the wicked, w...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

because he saw . seeing. Greek. eidon. App-133. pleased . is pleasing to. See note on Acts 6:2 , and Mark 15:15 (note). proceeded further . added.. Hebraism. Greek. prostithemi. Compare...
Acts 12:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. Seeing that it pleased the Jews. It appeareth more plainly by this that Herod was not moved either with any zeal that he had to Moses’ law or with any hatred of the gospel, thus to persec...
Acts 12:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) He proceeded - to take Peter also - He supposed that these two were pillars...
Acts 12:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And, because he saw it pleased the people— This prince, as Josephus tells us, was a great zealot for the Mosaic law; dwelt much at Jerusalem, and was as fond of all opportunities to oblige the Jews...
Acts 12:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And because he saw it pleased the Jews - popularity being his ruling...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Because he saw it pleased the Jews. — This was throughout the ruling policy of the Herodian house. The persecution did not spring from any fanatic zeal against the new faith, but simply from motive...
Acts 12:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Acts 12:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Acts 12:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

SLAIN BY THE SWORD ‘And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.’ Acts 12:2 The death of St. James is one of those events which, at first sight, seems so unintelligible to our min...
Acts 12:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And because he saw it pleased the Jews ,.... That is, as Beza's ancient copy adds, "his stretching out his hands upon the faithful"; this pleased the Jews, a bloodthirsty generation of men, who had...
Acts 12:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) Ver. 3. And because he saw, &c. ] Seianus ferox scelerum, quia prim...
Acts 12:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And because he saw it pleased the Jews Whose favour he laboured by all possible means to conciliate; he proceeded to take Peter also Renowned as he was for such a variety of miracles wrought by h...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Martyrdom of James; Peter's Imprisonment. 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of th...
Acts 12:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

All the posterity of Herod the Great, by his example, studied chiefly to please the Roman emperors, and to gratify the Jews, whether by right or wrong. The days of unleavened bread; or the passover...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - 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 ,...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - 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...
Acts 12:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Herod Persecutes the Church at Jerusalem and is Punished by God. Acts 12:1-25 James beheaded, Peter imprisoned:
Acts 12:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 5:7 ; 1 Corinthians 5:8 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:4 ; Acts 2:14 ; Acts 24:27 ; Acts 25:9 ; Acts 4:13 ; Exodus 12:14-20 ; Exodus 13:3-7 ; Exodus 23:15 ; Galatians 1:10 ; John 12:43...
Acts 12:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Acts 12:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Then were the days of unleavened bread — At which the Jews came together from all parts.

Acts 12:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 12:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Acts 12:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 12:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 12:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 12:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 12:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 12:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 12:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 12:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 12:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 12:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Acts 12:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 12:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 12:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 12:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 12:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 12:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 12:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 12:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 12:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 12:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 12:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 12:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Acts 12:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes