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Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Acts 12:18

τάραχος (generally ταραχή): only in Acts 19:23, although several times in LXX. οὐκ ὀλίγος : only found in Acts, where it occurs eight times (litotes), cf. Acts 19:11; Acts 20:12; Acts 27:14, and for similar expressions Luke 15:13 (Acts 1:5), Acts 7:6 : see Klostermann, Vindiciæ Lucanæ, p. 52, and Page, in loco. The guards would answer for the escape of the prisoner by suffering a like penalty, cf. Cod. Just., ix., 4, 4. τί ἄρα (cf. Luke 1:66), Peter has disappeared, what, then, has become of him? (Grimm, sub υ . ἄρα (i.), and Winer-Moulton, liii. 8); it thus marks the perplexity of the soldier as to what had become of Peter. ἐγέν.: Blass, quid Petro (ablat.) factum sit.

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See also Acts 12:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NO SMALL STIR - Amazement that he had escaped, and apprehension of the consequences. The punishment which they had reason to expect, for having suffered his escape, was death....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    When Peter had grasped what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, who was surnamed Mark. There a large number had assembled together and were praying. When Peter had knocked...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS SOON AS, &C. = day having come. STIR. disturbance. Greek. _tarachos._ Here and Acts 19:23. AMONG. Greek. _en._ App-104. WHAT WAS, &C. Literally what then Peter had come to be....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _stir among the soldiers_ For the guards who had been chained to the prisoner would discover as soon as they awoke, that he had escaped from between them, and they would know that their lives would pr...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΆΡΑΧΟΣ ΟΥ̓Κ ὈΛΊΓΟΣ ἘΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΣΤΡΑΤΙΏΤΑΙΣ, _no small stir among the soldiers_. For the guards who had been chained to the prisoner would discover as soon as they awoke that he had escaped from between...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    SURPRISE OF THE BRETHREN AND ANGER OF HEROD...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _PETER'S RELEASE SURPRISED THE BRETHREN ACTS 12:13-19:_ When Peter first reached the gate he was left standing at the door by Rhoda. She was too amazed to open the gate. She ran into the house and sai...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΗΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.), см._ Acts 12:5. _Gen. abs._ ΤΆΡΑΧΟΣ (G5017) сопереживание, ΆΡ (G686) следовательно, тогда; вводная частица, ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 12:5...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    18, 19. The escape of Peter had been altogether unobserved by the soldiers who guarded him. The two who were chained to him in the prison slept on till day, and those guarding the outside changed thei...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. NOW AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY. His deliverance must have been during the fourth and last watch of the n...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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 concerning Herod is that which declares that when "he saw t...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (8) Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. (8) Evil counsel in the end results in the hurt of those who devised it....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    At day-dawn the soldiers missed Peter, to their infinite consternation, and submit to their awful fate-the merciless penalty of the cruel tyrant-for letting their prisoner escape. Herod has them all h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. (19) And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    18._When it was day. _Luke returneth now unto Herod and the soldiers; and he saith that there was no small ado amongst them. For they could not suspect that Peter was taken from them by violence, or t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY,.... When it was morning; as soon as there was any light in the prison, by which the guards could discern one another and their prisoners: THERE WAS NO SMALL STIR AMONG THE...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. Ver. 18. _There was no small stir_] Huddle or hubbub, ταραχος, with fear and care how they should answ...

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

    _As soon as it was day_ And they found their prisoner escaped; _there was no small stir_ [Greek, ταραχος ουκ ολιγος, _not a little tumult_, or _confusion_] _among the soldiers, what was become of Pete...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Peter leaves Jerusalem:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    NOW AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY, THERE WAS NO SMALL STIR AMONG THE SOLDIERS WHAT WAS BECOME OF PETER....

  • Leslie 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 beginning. Being the apostle to the Jews, he manifestly...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    THEN, AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY, THERE WAS NO SMALL STIR AMONG THE SOLDIERS ABOUT WHAT HAD BECOME OF PETER. 1. As it became daylight - just at dawn - the news of the "breakout" was the buzz around the pa...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "There was no small disturbance among the soldiers" Peter is not discovered missing until dawn, which indicates that Peter was probably delivered around midnight and the soldiers did not change shifts...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-19 God's providence leaves room for the use of our prudence, though he has undertaken to perform and perfect what he has begun. These Christians continued in prayer for Peter, for they were truly...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The soldiers, who were bound with Peter in the same chains, could not but miss him as soon as they did awake, and with admiration find the chains still holding them, thought loosened from Peter. What...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    18, 19. The escape of Peter had been altogether unobserved by the soldiers who guarded him. The two who were chained to him in the prison slept on till day, and those guarding the outside changed thei...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death,"[53]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 12:18 Then G1161 was G1096 (G5637) day G2250 was G2258 (G5713) no G3756 small G3641 stir...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.' We could put it another way. A bombshell had been dropped among his guards. They must have been appa...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Acts 12:18. AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY. The angel's visit and Peter's escape must have taken place during the last watch of the night, between the hours of three and six; otherwise the absence of the priso...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY (Γενομενης ημερας). Genitive absolute, day having come.NO SMALL STIR (ταραχος ουκ ολιγος). Litotes (ουκ ολιγος), occurs eight times in the Acts as in Acts 15:2, and nowhere e...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    WHEN MORNING CAME. The soldiers guarding Peter were probably asleep [at least the two chained to him], and did not find him missing until they woke up. HEROD GAVE ORDERS TO SEARCH FOR HIM. Herod is an...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 12:18 In executing the SENTRIES (guards), HEROD followed Roman practice. Soldiers who lost their prisoners were subject to the same penalty as that due to the prisoners. Caes

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 16:27; Acts 19:23; Acts 5:22...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. How wicked persecutors are mightily enraged, when their bloody purposes are disappointed. Herod having lost his prize, is so incensed, that he caused the keepers first to be examined,...

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