Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Acts 12:22
These impious flatterers destroy whom they exalt; for God will pull down his rivals.
These impious flatterers destroy whom they exalt; for God will pull down his rivals.
ACTS 12:20-22 The account in the Western text of the last days and death of Herod Agrippa I differs in several respects from that in the commonly received text. By using ga,r instead of de, (ver....
AND THE PEOPLE GAVE A SHOUT - A loud applause. IT IS THE VOICE OF A GOD ... - It is not probable that the Jews joined in this acclamation, but that it was made by the idolatrous Gentiles. Josephus giv...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The great Persecution by Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1)._ 2. The miraculous deliverance of Peter (Acts 12:6). 3. The Presumption and Judgment of Herod (Acts 12:18). 4. Barnabas and Sau...
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 glorification and end is told by Josephus in a similar way; but...
Herod was furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon. But they came to him with a common purpose. They gained the ear of Blastus the king's chamberlain and sued for peace because their country was depe...
IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
PEOPLE. Greek. _demos._ The usual word for the populace. Only here, Acts 17:5; Acts 19:30; Acts 19:33. GAVE. SHOUT. Greek. _epiphoneo._ Only here,...
DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I. GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
_HEROD DIED A TERRIBLE DEATH ACTS 12:20-25:_ Herod was highly displeased with people of Tyre and Sidon. But their country got its food from the region that he ruled. Blastus, the king's chamberlain ha...
ΈΠΕΦΏΝΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΦΩΝΈΩ (G2019) громко кричать, приветствовать (LC). ΘΕΌΣ Бог; здесь: "один из богов". Эмфатическое, выделено положением. Иосиф Флавий пишет, что люди продолжали льстит...
DISCOURSE: 1774 THE EVIL OF PRIDE Acts 12:21. _And upon a set day Herod, arrayed, in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the...
AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, &C.— Upon occasion of the games and approaching festival hinted at in the last verse, there was a great resort of the governors and principal men of the neighbouring province...
5. AT JERUSALEM. Acts 12:1-24. a. Persecution of Herod. James beheaded. Peter imprisoned. Acts 12:1-5. Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the c...
See notes one verse 20...
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. AND THE PEOPLE GAVE A SHOUT, SAYING, IT IS THE VOICE OF A GOD, AND NOT OF A MAN....
17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...
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 imprisonment and miraculous release. The Church was persecut...
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)....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 PETER IN PRISON AGAIN, 12:1-5 V1 At that time, King Herod arrested some members of the *church. He made them suffer very badly. V2 He ordere...
δῆμος : only in Acts 17:5; Acts 19:30; Acts 19:33, but in the same signification in classical Greek. ἐπεφώνει : later Greek in this sense (_cf._ the flatterers in the description of Josephus, _u. s._,...
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 that prayer was the key to open Peter's prison. Rhoda is R...
Again persecution broke out in Jerusalem, and the first of the apostolic band suffered martyrdom at the hands of Herod. A revealing sentence concerning Herod is that which declares that when "he saw t...
God Deals With Herod The next morning, as one might imagine, the prison was in turmoil. No one knew what had happened to Peter. When Herod could not find him, he had the guards executed. Roman law req...
(10) And the people gave a shout, [saying, It is] the voice of a god, and not of a man. (10) The flattery of people makes fools glad....
DOOM OF THE TYRANT 20-23. For reasons not here specified, the king was exceedingly mad at the people of Tyre and Sidon, those great mercantile cities on the Mediterranean coasts. He was not allowed to...
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. (22) And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. (23) And i...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
Herod, to please the Jews, begins to persecute the assembly in that city. We may remark here, that the company of believers at Antioch are also called the assembly (church), which is the case nowhere...
AND THE PEOPLE GAVE A SHOUT,.... At the end of the oration; these were flatterers, as Josephus says in the place before referred to, who cried out one from another, saluting him as God; saying, be mer...
And the people gave a shout, _saying, It is_ the voice of a god, and not of a man. Ver. 22. _It is the voice of a god_] ηδιστον ακουσμα επαινος, saith Xenophon. Men naturally hear nothing with more d...
_And upon a set day_ When shows and games were exhibited by him in honour of Claudius Cesar; _Herod, arrayed in royal apparel_ In a garment so wrought with silver, that the rays of the rising sun, str...
GAVE A SHOUT; flattered him with boisterous applause, as if he were more than human. Noisy flattering applause of public speakers is adapted to injure them. It tends to feed their pride, lead them to...
AND THE PEOPLE GAVE A SHOUT, SAYING, IT IS THE VOICE OF A GOD, AND NOT OF A MAN....
The judgment of God upon Herod:...
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 beginning. Being the apostle to the Jews, he manifestly...
AND THE PEOPLE KEPT SHOUTING, " THE VOICE OF A GOD AND NOT OF A MAN! " 1. Herod is at his height. 1. He is arrayed in silver, glittering in the sun. 2. He is being sought for peace by ambassadors....
"The people kept crying out" The verb tense shows that they kept it up. "The voice of. god and not. man" And this is exactly the type of praise and false flattery that Herod so earnestly wanted. This...
20-25 Many heathen princes claimed and received Divine honours, but it was far more horrible impiety in Herod, who knew the word and worship of the living God, to accept such idolatrous honours witho...
Acts 12:22 And G1161 people G1218 shouting G2019 (G5707) voice G5456 god G2316 and G2532 not G3756 man...
‘And the people shouted, saying, “The voice of a god, and not of a man.” ' In response to his great show of self-aggrandisement the people responded in a way that could only please him. They cried out...
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 evangelisation having been set up (unknowingly at the tim...
SHOUTED (επεφωνε). Imperfect active, kept on shouting, calling out to him. Old verb, but only four times in the N.T. and all by Luke. The heathen crowd (δημος) repeated their flattering adulation t...
CONTENTS: Persecutions of the church and arrest of Peter. Prayer for his deliverance and his miraculous release Death of Herod. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Herod, James, Peter, 2 soldiers, angel, Mary, Mark,...
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 had brought alms to Jerusalem, as in Acts 12:25, _Hero...
BUT A GOD. This is the second day of the Games. Herod is dressed in robes of silver cloth, and he stands so the sun will flash and sparkle from his robes. It may be that he announced peace with Tyre a...
_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 Judaea in disgust and spleen because Peter had escaped...
_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, one Jewish, the other Roman; the latter adopted at f...
_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_, in modern phrase, “contemplating hostilities” (Plumptre),...
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 what had just before been related (Meyer). The interposition of th...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Acts 12. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church (Acts 12:1). There are just a lot of Herods in the Bible and it i...
Acts 14:10; Daniel 6:7; Jude 1:16; Psalms 12:2; Revelation 13:4...
The people [δ η μ ο ς]. The assembled people. A God. As most of the assembly were heathen, the word does not refer to the Supreme Being, but is to be taken in the pagan sense - a God....
HEROD'S DUPLICITY AND DEATH Acts 12:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to our final message concerning Peter's third imprisonment. We are about to present the other side of the message. We have seen...