Easter
the passover.
And when he had apprehended him - When he had taken or arrested him. He put him in prison - During the solemnities of this religious festival...
(3) And when he had apprehended him, he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter...
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...
apprehended . arrested. Greek. piazo. See note on John 11:57 . in . into. Greek. eis. prison . ward. Greek. pkulake. quaternions . Gree...
4. Adding four quaternions of soldiers. Luke doth, in this place, declare by circumstances that Peter was, as it were, shut up in his grave,...
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to b...
To four quaternions of soldiers— That is, to sixteen, consisting of four in each party, who were to watch him by turns, four at a time; two of th...
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 impris...
Four quaternions ] four parties of four soldiers each, relieving one another at intervals. Easter] i.e. the Passover.
Delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers. — Agrippa apparently followed the lessons of Roman practice which he had learnt by his own experienc...
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...
Again persecution broke out in Jerusalem, and the first of the apostolic band suffered martyrdom at the hands of Herod. A revealing sentence concerni...
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring...
When he had apprehended him ,.... When his officers he sent to take him had brought him: he put him in prison ; in the common prison, very likely...
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...
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 begi...
The Martyrdom of James; Peter's Imprisonment. 1 Now about that time Herod the kin...
Four quaternions of soldiers: there were sixteen soldiers appointed to keep Peter; the Romans using four soldiers at a time to keep sentry, and the...
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 eva...
‘And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bri...
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...
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 h...
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...
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 wh...
Herod Persecutes the Church at Jerusalem and is Punished by God. Acts 12:1-25 James beheaded, Peter imprisoned:
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him, intending after Easter to brin...
Acts 16:23 ; Acts 16:24 ; Acts 4:28 ; Acts 4:3 ; Acts 5:18 ; Acts 8:3 ; Esther 3:13 ; Esther 3:6 ; Esther 3:7 ; John 13:36-38 ; John 21:18...
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, p...
Herod Kills James Acts 12:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There had come a time of comparative peace after the persecution which arose about Stephen,...
Four quaternions — Sixteen men, who watched by turns day and night.
4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Eastera to bring him forth to the people.