Acts 12:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

When Peter was come to himself, out of that amazement which so many wonderful things had wrought in him, that he could compose himself to effect upon what he had heard and seen, he knew his deliverance was real and effectual. Delivered me; from Herod, who had resolved to have killed him, as he had done James, Acts 12:2; and from the people's expectation, who had heard the report of Herod's resolution, and longed for the fulfilling of it.

Acts 12:11

11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.