Acts 12:3

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,ouj kai, it^p) pistou,j (D (it^p) syr^hmg), which, in the context, may be rendered, “and when he saw that his attack upon the (saints and) faithful pleased the Jews …” Although Luke uses the verb evpiceirei/n ( Luke 1:1; Acts 9:29; Acts 19:13), the noun evpicei,rhsij appears nowhere else in the New Testament.