Acts 12:4

Four quaternions — Sixteen men, who watched by turns day and night.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

apprehended . arrested. Greek. piazo. See note on John 11:57 . in . into. Greek. eis. prison . ward. Greek. pkulake. quaternions . Gree...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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...
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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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Scofield Reference Notes

Easter the passover.
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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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.

Related Commentaries of Acts 12:4

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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