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( See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4).
Gird thyself - When they slept the outer garment was thrown off, and the girdle with which they bound their inner garment, or tunic, was loosed....
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...
Gird thyself . Greek. perizonnumi. Occurs elsewhere, Luke 12:35 ; Luke 12:37 ; Luke 17:8 ; Ephesians 6:14 . Revelation 1:13 ; Revelation 15:6...
And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me....
And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow...
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...
Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. — In lying down to sleep the Apostle had naturally laid aside his “cloak,” loosened the girdle that bound hi...
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 Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before th...
And the angel said unto him, gird thyself ,.... He slept in his inner garment loose about him; wherefore the angel bids him gird it up with his gird...
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 , t...
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...
Peter's Imprisonment and Deliverance. 5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but p...
Gird thyself; the custom being to wear long garments, they were not so fit to go about any business until they had girt their garments to them; hen...
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 the angel said to him, “Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals.” And he did so. And he says to him, “Throw your robe about you, and follow me.”...
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...
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 Chr...
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...
The miraculous deliverance:
And the angel said unto him, Gird thy self, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee and follow me...
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,...
Gird thyself — Probably he had put off his girdle, sandals, and upper garment, before he lay down to sleep.
8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.