Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 12:2
James the brother of John — So one of the brothers went to God the first, the other the last of the apostles.
James the brother of John — So one of the brothers went to God the first, the other the last of the apostles.
ACTS 12:2 The proposal of Eisler 226 and others to emend the text of this verse by inserting the words VIwa,nnhn kai, after avnei/len has been made in the interest of bolstering the exceedingly weak...
Verse Acts 12:2. _HE KILLED JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN WITH THE SWORD._] This was _James_ the _greater_, son of Zebedee, and must be distinguished from _James_ the _less_, son of Alpheus. This latter...
AND HE KILLED ... - He caused to be put to death with a sword, either by beheading, or piercing him through. The Roman procurators were entrusted with authority over life, though in the time of Pilate...
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...
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 his general policy. The persecutions of the faithful...
About this time Herod the king began to take hostile action to inflict injury on certain men of the Church. He killed James, John's brother, with the sword. When he saw that this gave pleasure to the...
IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
KILLED. Greek. _anaireo._ See note on Acts 2:23. JAMES. App-141. JOHN. App-141. The last historical reference to John. SWORD. Death by the sword was regarded by the Rabbis as particularly disgracef...
_And he killed James the brother of John_ One of the two sons of Zebedee, who had been among the three specially favoured disciples of Jesus. It is therefore likely that he would take a leading part i...
ἸΆΚΩΒΟΝ ΤῸΝ�, _James, the brother of John_. This was one of the two sons of Zebedee, who had been among the three specially favoured disciples of Jesus. It is therefore likely that he would take a lea...
Acts 12:1-12. HEROD’S PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH. PETER’S MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE FROM PRISON...
_JAMES DIED FOR THE CAUSE OF CHRIST ACTS 12:1-5:_ One man can do either much harm or much good toward the cause of Christ. King Herod Agrippa I harassed some in the church and caused terrible sufferin...
ΆΝΕΊΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΙΡΈΩ (G337) убивать, ΜΑΧΑΊΡΗ _dat. sing. от_ ΜΆΧΑΙΡΑ (G3162) меч. _Instr. dat._ О казни мечом, которая означает, что было предъявлено политическое обвинение, _см._ Barr...
AND HE KILLED JAMES— Thus was our Lord's prediction, relating to them, fulfilled, Matthew 20:23. I know not how far we areto depend upon the tradition which we find cited by Eusebius, from a book of C...
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 1...
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. AND HE KILLED JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN WITH THE SWORD - in all likelihood by beheading, which (as Lightfoot shows) was regarded by the Jews...
26 The name "Christian" is Latin in its termination, so seems to have been given by the Romans. It is mentioned only twice more (Act_26:28; 1Pe_4:16), and was a term of contempt. It is never used by t...
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...
JAMES] i.e. James the Great, son of Zebedee....
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...
HE KILLED JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN WITH THE SWORD. — Had the Apostle been tried by the Sanhedrin on a charge of blasphemy and heresy, the sentence would have been death by stoning. Decapitation showe...
CHAPTER 8 THE DEFEAT OF PRIDE. Acts 12:1; Acts 12:23 THE chapter at which we have now arrived is very important from a chronological point of view, as it brings the sacred narrative into contact wit...
ἀνεῖλε, characteristic word, see on v. Acts 5:33. Ἰάκωβον τὸν ἀ. Ἰ.: St. Chrysostom reminds us of our Lord's prophecy in Mark 10:38 ff. (Matthew 20:23), distinguished thus from the James of...
LOOSENED BONDS Acts 12:1-12 This Herod was the grandson of Herod the Great. He courted the goodwill of the Jews, though he was dissolute, cruel, and unscrupulous. How wonderful that God can spare fr...
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...
James Killed and Peter Seized By Herod Sometime near the time Barnabas and Saul were taking the gift from Antioch to Jerusalem, Herod Agrippa decided to inflict pain on certain members of the church....
And he (b) killed James the brother of John with the sword. (b) Violently, his cause not being heard at all....
St. James the elder, brother of St. John the evangelist....
MARTYRDOM OF JAMES 1, 2. This Herod Antipas was the grandson of the King Herod reigning when our Savior was born, and notorious for slaying the infants of Bethlehem, and even himself, while the innoce...
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. (2) And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. (3) And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he pr...
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...
_A GREAT APOSTLE_ ‘James the brother of John.’ Acts 12:2 Within the broad circle of the Apostles’ characters, their lives, histories, examples, the follower of Christ finds experiences which he, to...
_SLAIN BY THE SWORD_ ‘And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.’ Acts 12:2 The death of St. James is one of those events which, at first sight, seems so unintelligible to our minds. H...
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 HE KILLED JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN WITH THE SWORD. This was James, the son of Zebedee, whom our Lord told, that he should be baptized with the baptism he was baptized with, Matthew 20:22 meaning...
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. Ver. 2. _And he killed James the brother_] So styled to distinguish him from the other James, called James the Less, kinsman to Christ, and bis...
_Now about that time_ When Saul and Barnabas were preparing to set out to Jerusalem, to carry thither what had been collected by the Christians at Antioch; _Herod stretched forth his hands to vex cert...
JAMES; one of the sons of Zebedee, Matthew 4:21, called James the greater, or senior, to distinguish him from James the less, or younger, who was the son of Alpheus. Matthew 10:3; MARK 15:40. No degre...
AND HE KILLED JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN, WITH THE SWORD....
HEROD PERSECUTES THE CHURCH AT JERUSALEM AND IS PUNISHED BY GOD. Acts 12:1 James beheaded, Peter imprisoned:...
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...
THEN HE KILLED JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN WITH THE SWORD. 1. James the brother of John - He was known as James the Greater, the son of Zebedee. 2. Adam Clarke explains: By killing with the sword we a...
"He had James the brother of John put to death with the sword" This was James the son of Zebedee, one of the original twelve apostles. Being executed with the sword either meant being beheaded or pier...
1-5 James was one of the sons of Zebedee, whom Christ told that they should drink of the cup that he was to drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that he was to be baptized with, Matthew 20:23....
Who had especially the care of the church at Jerusalem: one eminent amongst the apostles, and one of the sons of thunder, (or Boanerges), for his zealous and earnest preaching, and therefore the more...
Tertullian Scorpiace that James is slain[112]...
Acts 12:2 Then G1161 killed G337 (G5627) James G2385 brother G80 John G2491 sword G3162 James -...
‘And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.' To the horror of all Christians James, the brother of John, one of the select three of Peter, James and John, was put to death by being behead...
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...
Acts 12:2. AND HE KILLED JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN. After eleven years of patient noble work, the brother of John received one portion of the high reward which Salome had asked for her sons (Matthew 2...
JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN (Ιακωβον τον αδελφον Ιωανου). He had been called by Jesus a son of thunder along with his brother John. Jesus had predicted a bloody death for both of them (Mark 10:38; Mat...
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...
JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN. One of the three apostles who had formed the "inner circle" with Jesus. James was _beheaded._ [James the Lord's brother appears in Acts after this (_see also_ Galatians 1:1...
_Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church._ HEROD THE KING The previous life of this prince had been full of strange vicissitudes. The son of Aristobu...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 12:2 The martyred JAMES 1:1 was Jesus’ disciple, son of Zebedee and brother of John....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 12:1. ABOUT THAT TIME (compare Acts 19:23).—_I.e._, before, or about the time of, the arrival of Barnabas and Saul at Jerusalem (Acts 11:30). The incidents recorded in this cha...
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...
1 Kings 19:1; 1 Kings 19:10; Hebrews 11:37; Jeremiah 26:23; Mark 10:
Killed - with the sword. While the martyrdom of Stephen is described at length, that of James, the first martyr among the apostles, is related in two words....
BUT PRAYER Acts 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Peter was in prison. Herod emboldened by the fact that his killing of James had pleased the Jews, proceeded to take Peter also. His purpose was to kill him a...
HEROD KILLS JAMES Acts 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There had come a time of comparative peace after the persecution which arose about Stephen, had subsided. Not long, however, could Satan fold his hands...
Note here, 1. The person slain by the sword of Herod, James the brother of John. We read in the gospel that he was one of the sons of Zebedee, that desired of Christ the pre-eminence to sit at his rig...