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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....
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Verse Acts 12:21. _UPON A SET DAY_, c.] A day on which games, c.,
were exhibited in honour of the Roman emperor. What this refers to, we
learn from Josephus. "Herod, having reigned three years over A...
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AND UPON A SET DAY - An appointed, public day. This was the second day
of the sports and games which Herod celebrated in Caesarea in honor of
Claudius Caesar. Josephus has given an account of this occ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
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SET. APPOINTED.
ROYAL. Same as "king's", Acts 12:20.
APPAREL. Josephus (_Antiquities_ XIX. viii. 2) says it was of silver
tissue, and glittered resplendently in the sun.
HIS THRONE. the throne. Gree...
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_And upon a set day_ The day was one appointed (as Josephus tells us)
for holding a festival on which to make vows for Cæsar's safety.
_Herod, arrayed_(having arrayed himself) _in royal apparel_ See...
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ΤΑΚΤΗ͂Ι ΔῈ ἩΜΈΡΑΙ, _and upon a set day_. The day was
one appointed (as Josephus tells us) for holding a festival on which
to make vows for the safety of the Roman emperor.
Ὁ ἩΡΏΔΗΣ ἘΝΔΥΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ ἘΣΘΗ͂Τ...
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DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I. GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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See notes one verse 20...
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And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his
throne, and made an oration unto them.
AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT UPON HIS
THRONE, [ beematos (G968)]...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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AND UPON A SET DAY... — Josephus (_Ant._ xix. 8, § 2) gives an
account of the incident that follows substantially agreeing with that
here recorded. The scene was the theatre at Cæsarea, which had been...
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τακτῇ : only here in N.T.; _cf._ Jos., _Ant._, xix., 8, 2 (_cf._
xviii., 6, 7), δευτέρᾳ δὲ τῶν θεωριῶν
ἡμέρᾳ. It is quite true that Josephus says nothing directly of
the Tyrians and Sidonians, but the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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21._Upon an appointed day. _Luke saith that the men of Tyrus and Sidon
had peace granted them, because this was the occasion of the king’s
oration, without doubt, that he might make them his underling...
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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...
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AND UPON A SET DAY,.... Either on some feast day of divine
appointment, as a feast day was by the Jews called מועד, "a stated
day"; or on some day appointed by Herod, for the receiving of the
ambassad...
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And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his
throne, and made an oration unto them.
Ver. 21. _And upon a set day_] When there were solemn shows and plays
acted in honour of Caesar...
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_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...
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The judgment of God upon Herod:...
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AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT UPON HIS
THRONE, AND MADE AN ORATION UNTO THEM....
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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...
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SO ON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT ON HIS THRONE AND
GAVE AN ORATION TO THEM.
1. Herod was dressed to impress. He was arrayed in garments that
showed his power, wealth, and high pos...
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Josephus tells us that this appointed day was the second day of the
sports and games held in Caesarea, at Herod's insistence, in honor of
Claudius Caesar (Antiquities, XIX. 8.2.) "His royal apparel" J...
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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...
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UPON A SET DAY; this was (says Josephius, cap. 19. lib. 7) the second
day of the sports or games, which Herod had instituted in honour of
the emperor Claudius; or, it may he, such a day as Herod had a...
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Acts 12:21 So G1161 set G5002 day G2250 Herod G2264 arrayed G1746
(G5671) royal G937 apparel G2066 sat...
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‘And on a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, and sat on
the throne, and made an oration to them.'
The day came for the royal triumph. On the set day Herod clothed
himself regally and sat...
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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...
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Acts 12:21. AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT
UPON HIS THRONE, AND MADE AN ORATION UNTO THEM. Some fifty years
before, Herod the Great, grandfather of the present king, had
estab...
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UPON A SET DAY
(τακτη ημερα). Locative case and the verbal adjective of
τασσω, to arrange, appoint, old word, here only in the N.T.
Josephus (_Ant_. XVII. 6, 8; XIX. 8, 2) gives a full account of th...
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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,...
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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...
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ON A CHOSEN DAY. This implies it was some special occasion. Josephus
the Jewish historian tells about all this....
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_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...
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_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...
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_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),...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 12:21...
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Set [τ α κ τ η]. Appointed. Only here in New Testament. What the
festival was, is uncertain. According to some, it was in honor of the
emperor's safe return from Britain. Others think it was to celebr...
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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...
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And on a set day — Which was solemnized yearly, in honour of
Claudius Cesar; Herod, arrayed in royal apparel — In a garment so
wrought with silver, that the rays of the rising sun striking upon,
and b...
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Upon. set day, that is, as some suppose, on his own birthday, he was
arrayed in royal apparel, in. cloke made of cloth of silver, but dyed
with St. James's blood, Acts 12:2. which being beaten upon by...