Acts 12:1-5
HEROD PERSECUTES THE CHURCH AT JERUSALEM AND IS PUNISHED BY GOD. Acts 12:1 James beheaded, Peter imprisoned:... [ Continue Reading ]
HEROD PERSECUTES THE CHURCH AT JERUSALEM AND IS PUNISHED BY GOD. Acts 12:1 James beheaded, Peter imprisoned:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW ABOUT THAT TIME HEROD THE, KING STRETCHED FORTH HIS HANDS TO VEX CERTAIN OF THE CHURCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE KILLED JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN, WITH THE SWORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE JEWS, HE PROCEEDED FURTHER TO TAKE PETER ALSO. (THEN WERE THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.)... [ Continue Reading ]
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 HIM FORTH TO THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
PETER, THEREFORE, WAS KEPT IN PRISON; BUT PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING OF THE CHURCH UNTO GOD FOR HIM. At that time, at the time when Barnabas and Saul were sent on their embassy of charity, very probably in the year 45 or early in 46 A. D. Since the year 41 Herod Agrippa I, a grandson of Herod t... [ Continue Reading ]
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 THE DOOR KEPT THE PRISON.... [ Continue Reading ]
The miraculous deliverance:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM, AND A LIGHT SHINED IN THE PRISON; AND HE SMOTE PETER ON THE SIDE, AND RAISED HIM UP, SAYING, ARISE UP QUICKLY. AND HIS CHAINS FELL OFF FROM HIS HANDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT OUT AND FOLLOWED HIM, AND WIST NOT THAT IT WAS TRUE WHICH WAS DONE BY THE ANGEL, BUT THOUGHT HE SAW A VISION.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY WERE PAST THE FIRST AND THE SECOND WARD, THEY CAME UNTO THEIR ON GATE THAT LEADETH UNTO THE CITY, WHICH OPENED TO THEM OF HIS OWN ACCORD; AND THEY WENT OUT, AND PASSED ON THROUGH ONE STREET; AND FORTH WITH THE ANGEL DEPARTED FROM HIM. In the meantime, while the tyrant Herod was anticipatin... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter in the house of Mary:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD CONSIDERED THE THING, HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF MARY, THE MOTHER OF JOHN, WHOSE SURNAME WAS MARK, WHERE MANY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER PRAYING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS PETER KNOCKED AT THE DOOR OF THE GATE, A DAMSEL CAME TO HEARKEN, NAMED RHODA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN SHE KNEW PETER'S VOICE, SHE OPENED NOT THE GATE FOR GLADNESS, BUT RAN IN AND TOLD HOW PETER STOOD BEFORE THE GATE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SAID UNTO HER, THOU ART MAD. BUT SHE CONSTANTLY AFFIRMED THAT IT WAS EVEN SO. THEN SAID THEY, IT IS HIS ANGEL.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PETER CONTINUED KNOCKING; AND WHEN THEY HAD OPENED THE DOOR, AND SAW HIM, THEY WERE ASTONISHED. After the departure of the angel, whom he had till then followed in such a dazed fashion, Peter at last came to himself, he became fully awake, he shook off the lethargy of sleep and regained the prop... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE, BECKONING UNTO THEM WITH THE HAND TO HOLD THEIR PEACE, DECLARED UNTO THEM HOW THE LORD HAD BROUGHT HIM OUT OF THE PRISON. AND HE SAID, GO SHOW THESE THINGS UNTO JAMES AND TO THE BRETHREN. AND HE DEPARTED, AND WENT INTO ANOTHER PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter leaves Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY, THERE WAS NO SMALL STIR AMONG THE SOLDIERS WHAT WAS BECOME OF PETER.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 JUDEA TO CAESAREA, AND THERE ABODE. Peter was now again completely master of himself and of the situation. He realized that any outburst of joy might no... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HEROD WAS HIGHLY DISPLEASED WITH THEM OF TYRE AND SIDON; BUT THEY CAME WITH ONE ACCORD TO HIM, AND, HAVING MADE BLASTUS, THE KING'S CHAMBERLAIN, THEIR FRIEND, DESIRED PEACE, BECAUSE THEIR COUNTRY WAS NOURISHED BY THE KING'S COUNTRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The judgment of God upon Herod:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT UPON HIS THRONE, AND MADE AN ORATION UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PEOPLE GAVE A SHOUT, SAYING, IT IS THE VOICE OF A GOD, AND NOT OF A MAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IMMEDIATELY THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SMOTE HIM, BECAUSE HE GAVE NOT GOD THE GLORY; AND HE WAS EATEN OF WORMS, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND MULTIPLIED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BARNABAS AND SAUL RETURNED FROM JERUSALEM WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED THEIR MINISTRY, AND TOOK WITH THEM JOHN, WHOSE SURNAME WAS MARK. Luke here adds a few words in regard to the cause of the death of Herod Agrippa I to round out the narrative. Herod was king of Palestine and of all the provinces so... [ Continue Reading ]