Acts 12:24

2 Thessalonians 3:1; Acts 11:21; Acts 19:20; Acts 5:39; Acts 6:7; Colossians 1:6; Daniel 2:24; Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 41:10-13; Isaiah 54:14-17; Isaiah 55:10; Matthew 16:18; Proverbs 28:28

Related Commentaries of Acts 12:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But the word of God grew ... - Great success attended it. The persecutions had now ceased; and notwithstanding all the attempts which had been ma...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(12) But the (s) word of God grew and multiplied. (12) Tyrants build up the Church by destroying it. (s) Those that heard the word of God.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Fate of the Soldiers and of Herod. For the soldiers, cf. Acts 5:21 ff. Here they are led away to be put to death. The story of Herod's glorific...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

word . Greek. logos. App-121. grew . increased. multiplied . Greek. plethuno. See Matthew 24:12 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

24. And the word of God. When the tyrant was once taken out of the way the Church was suddenly delivered, as it were, out of the jaws of the...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But the word of God grew and multiplied. But the word of God - The Christian doctrine preached by the apostles grew and multiplied - became more evid...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Grew and multiplied.— The expressions here used relate properly to vegetables, and may be intended to signify, that the growth of the gospel, that...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But the word of God grew and multiplied. But the word of God grew and multiplied - q.d., 'Not only was the royal persecutor ignominiously swe...
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 impris...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Death of Herod Agrippa I , 44 a.d. Josephus's account of Herod's death, which is quite independent, confirms St. Luke's (see 'Ant.' 19.8).
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

So signal a judgment upon a persecutor was an indication of the righteousness of the Christian cause. It is a remarkable fact that most of the early...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But the word of God grew and multiplied. — The words describe a continuous expansion. The death of the chief persecutor left free scope for the act...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 12:23-24 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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

beyond Their Faith Acts 12:13-25 Mark's mother was evidently a woman of property, as her house was large enough to receive the many who felt th...
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 concerni...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

But the word of God grew and multiplied. (25) And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But the word of God grew and multiplied. The number of those who were converted by it, and embraced and professed it, increased; otherwise the word...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But the word of God grew and multiplied. Ver. 24. But the word of God ] The Church is invincible; and truth may be oppressed a while, but not utt...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But the word of God grew and multiplied Became more successful; and in every place where it was preached, the number of disciples was considerably...
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 begi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of Herod. 20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sido...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Grew; the word of God is compared here to seed, as in our Saviour's parable, Matthew 13:19 . Multiplied; the number of believers multiplied th...
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 eva...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But the word of God grew and multiplied.' And in contrast to the end of the pretender, and in spite of what man could do, ‘the word of God grew and...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 12:20 . For And Herod read And , or but, he—i.e. , Herod. Highly displeased .—θυμομαχῶν, in a hostile state of mind ,...
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 h...
The Biblical Illustrator

And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark. John Mark 1. Two names are here,...
The Biblical Illustrator

And … Herod … went down from Judea to Caesarea. The death of Herod This journey of Herod is described by Josephus. It would seem that he left J...
The Biblical Illustrator

But the Word of God grew and multiplied. The progress of God’s Word This progress--growth and multiplication of God’s Word--was displayed-- I...
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 wh...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The judgment of God upon Herod:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But the Word of God grew and multiplied.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Herod's Duplicity and Death Acts 12:18-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to our final message concerning Peter's third imprisonment. We are ab...

²⁴ But the word of God grew and multiplied.

Related Commentaries of Acts 12:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Acts 12:24