Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 12:3
Then were the days of unleavened bread — At which the Jews came together from all parts.
Then were the days of unleavened bread — At which the Jews came together from all parts.
ACTS 12:3 In order to define more specifically what it was that Herod did that pleased the Jews, the Western text adds after toi/j VIoudai,oij the words h` evpicei,rhsij auvtou/ evpi. tou.j (+ a`gi,o...
Verse Acts 12:3. _HE PROCEEDED - TO TAKE PETER ALSO._] He supposed that these two were pillars on which the infant cause rested; and that, if these were removed, the building must necessarily come dow...
AND BECAUSE HE SAW THAT IT PLEASED THE JEWS - This was the principle on which he acted. It was not from a sense of right; it was not to do justice, and to protect the innocent; it was not to discharge...
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)...
BECAUSE HE SAW. seeing. Greek. _eidon._ App-133. PLEASED. is pleasing to. See note on Acts 6:2, and Mark 15:15 (note). PROCEEDED FURTHER. added.. Hebraism. Greek. _prostithemi._ Compare Luke 20:11....
_And because he saw it pleased the Jews_ Which was so great an object with him. This Josephus notices (_Antiq_. xix. 7. 3), for, comparing Agrippa with the Herod who ruled before him, he mentions that...
ἸΔῺΝ ΔῈ ὍΤΙ�, _and because he saw it pleased the Jews_, which with him was so great an object. Josephus, in contrasting Agrippa with the Herod who ruled before him, says the latter was ‘more friendly...
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...
ΊΔΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΆΡΕΣΤΌΣ (G701) приятный, вербальное _adj._, с _dat._ (RWP). ΠΡΟΣΈΘΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G4369) добавлять к чему-л., следов...
AND, BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE PEOPLE— This prince, as Josephus tells us, was a great zealot for the Mosaic law; dwelt much at Jerusalem, and was as fond of all opportunities to oblige the Jews, a...
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...
3, 4. When a man engages in a wicked enterprise, his conscience makes him timid while left to himself; but the applause of the multitude enables him to drown the voice of conscience, and rush on madly...
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) AND BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE JEWS - popularity being his ruling pass...
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...
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...
BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE JEWS. — This was throughout the ruling policy of the Herodian house. The persecution did not spring from any fanatic zeal against the new faith, but simply from motives o...
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...
ἀρεστόν … τοῖς Ἰ : exactly what we should expect from the character and policy of Herod in his zeal for the law, and from the success with which during his short reign he retained the favour of Jews a...
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....
(2) And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) (2) It is an old habit of tyrants to attain the favour of the wicked, wi...
The days of the azymes. By this we may know about the time when St. James was executed. Peter was to be reserved till after the Pasch, because it was not usual for the Jews to put any one to a violent...
PETER'S MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE 3, 4. When Herod beheaded James, the Jews took great courage, congratulating themselves that their good king will soon exterminate that vexatious heresy in blood. Herod...
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...
_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...
3._Seeing that it pleased the Jews. _It appeareth more plainly by this that Herod was not moved either with any zeal that he had to Moses’ law or with any hatred of the gospel, thus to persecute the C...
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 BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE JEWS,.... That is, as Beza's ancient copy adds, "his stretching out his hands upon the faithful"; this pleased the Jews, a bloodthirsty generation of men, who had kil...
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) Ver. 3. _And because he saw, &c._] _Seianus ferox scelerum, quia prima prove...
_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 he was for such a variety of miracles wrought by hi...
THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD; the passover. Exodus 12:12-17; Luke 22:1....
AND BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE JEWS, HE PROCEEDED FURTHER TO TAKE PETER ALSO. (THEN WERE THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.)...
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...
AND BECAUSE HE SAW THAT IT PLEASED THE JEWS, HE PROCEEDED FURTHER TO SEIZE PETER ALSO. NOW IT WAS _DURING_ THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. 1. The Jews were happy. The "Christians" were being persecuted...
"When he saw it pleased the Jews" "Luke is telling us that Herod's motives were simply political expediency. It wasn't that he had any real anti-Christian fanaticism, nor was he particularly intereste...
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....
All the posterity of Herod the Great, by his example, studied chiefly to please the Roman emperors, and to gratify the Jews, whether by right or wrong. THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD; or the passover, w...
3, 4. When a man engages in a wicked enterprise, his conscience makes him timid while left to himself; but the applause of the multitude enables him to drown the voice of conscience, and rush on madly...
Acts 12:3 And G2532 saw G1492 (G5631) it G3754 pleased G2076 (G5748) G701 Jews G2453 further...
‘And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. And those were the days of unleavened bread.' In some way the king took on board the fact that he had pleased the Jews, pos...
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 12:3. AND BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE JEWS. See note on Acts 12:1, in which the policy and character of King Herod are discussed at length. THEN WERE THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. During seven...
THAT IT PLEASED THE JEWS (οτ αρεστον εστιν τοις Ιουδαιοις). Indirect assertion with the present tense εστιν retained. Αρεστον is the verbal adjective from αρεσκω followed by the dative as in John 8...
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...
WHEN HE SAW THAT THIS PLEASED THE JEWS. This was the time for Passover, and a large number of Jews would be in Jerusalem for the Feast. He was looking for honor and popularity from them, and probably...
_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 12:3 The DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, the seven days following the Passover meal, were considered holy and were not to be violated by an execution....
_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 Corinthians 5:7; 1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:4; Acts 2:14;...
He proceeded to take [π ρ ο σ ε θ ε τ ο σ υ λ λ α β ε ι ν]. Rev., seize. Lit., he added to take. A Hebrew form of expression. Compare Luke 19:11, he added and spake; Luke 20:12, again he sent a third;...
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...