Acts 12:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

sought for him. sought him up and down.

not. Greek. me. App-105.

examined. Greek. anakrino. App-122.

put to death. led away, i.e. to execution. Greek. apago. Same word as in Matthew 27:31, &c.

Caesarea. See Acts 8:40.

abode. Greek. diatribo, to rub away, or spend (time). Occures John 3:22; John 11:54, and eight times in Acts.

Acts 12:19

19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.