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Verse Acts 12:19. _COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH._] He
believed, or pretended to believe, that the escape of Peter was owing
to the negligence of the keepers: jailers, watchmen, c., ordin...
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HE EXAMINED THE KEEPERS - The soldiers who were entrusted with his
custody. Probably only those who had the special care of him at that
watch of the night. The word “examine” here means “to inquire
di...
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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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IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
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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...
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SOUGHT FOR HIM. sought him up and down.
NOT. Greek. _me._ App-105.
EXAMINED. Greek. _anakrino._ App-122.
PUT TO DEATH. led away, i.e. to execution. Greek. _apago._ Same word
as in Matthew 27:31, &c...
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_commanded that they should be put to death_ The Greek is literally,
"commanded that they should be led forth," implying however that such
a proceeding was the prelude to their execution. It is the ve...
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ΜῊ ΕὙΡΏΝ. It is difficult to imagine any more literal
statement than these words, and there can be no distinction in such a
sentence between μὴ and οὐ.
ἘΚΈΛΕΥΣΕΝ�, _commanded that they should be put t...
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SURPRISE OF THE BRETHREN AND ANGER OF HEROD...
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_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...
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ΈΠΙΖΗΤΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΠΙΖΗΤΈΩ (G1934)
искать. Уступительное _part._ ΕΎΡΩΝ _aor. act.
part. от_ ΕΥΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить. Part, с ΚΑΊ
указывает на противопоставление: "и
все равно не нашли...
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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 18...
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And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the
keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went
down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
AND WHEN HE...
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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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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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COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH. — Literally, _that they
should be led away_ — _i.e.,_ to execution. The phrase was
half-technical, half-euphemistic. Capital punishment was, according to
Ro...
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μὴ for οὐ, as often with a participle. Simcox, _Language of the
N. T._, p. 188. ἀνακρίνας, Acts 4:9; Acts 24:8; Acts 28:18;
Luke 23:14, of a judicial investigation, cf.
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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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_Should be led [3] away to punishment or death, according to the sense
both of the Latin and Greek text. (Witham)_
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Jussit eos duci, _Greek: apachthenai._...
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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...
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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...
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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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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 WHEN HEROD HAD SOUGHT FOR HIM AND FOUND HIM NOT,.... Neither in
the prison, nor in any part of the city:
HE EXAMINED THE KEEPERS; of the prison, and those that were upon the
watch, whether they h...
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And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the
keepers, and commanded that _they_ should be put to death. And he went
down from Judaea to Caesarea, and _there_ abode.
Ver. 19....
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_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...
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THE KEEPERS; those to whose care Peter had been committed.
CESAREA; chap Acts 8:40....
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Peter leaves Jerusalem:...
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AND WHEN HEROD HAD SOUGHT FOR HIM AND FOUND HIM NOT, HE EXAMINED THE
KEEPERS, AND COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH. AND HE WENT
DOWN FROM JUDEA TO CAESAREA, AND THERE ABODE.
Peter was now ag...
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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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BUT WHEN HEROD HAD SEARCHED FOR HIM AND NOT FOUND HIM, HE EXAMINED THE
GUARDS AND COMMANDED THAT _THEY_ SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH. AND HE WENT
DOWN FROM JUDEA TO CAESAREA, AND STAYED _THERE._
1. Herod,...
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HEROD'S DEATH"Although Herod's victim had escaped his clutches, Herod
himself was still at large" (Stott p. 212).
Acts 12:19 "He went down from Judea to Caesarea" Josephus informs us
that Herod died i...
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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...
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HE EXAMINED THE KEEPERS; that is, judicially; proceeding against them
for the escape of St. Peter. COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD BE PUT TO
DEATH; they were sentenced to be led away, and it is most probab...
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Acts 12:19 But G1161 when G1934 Herod G2264 searched G1934 (G5660) him
G846 and G2532 not G3361 him...
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‘And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined
the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death (literally
‘led away'). And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and stay...
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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 12:19. AND HE WENT DOWN FROM JERUSALEM TO CÆSAREA. No doubt
bitterly disappointed at not being able to comply with the Jewish
desire in the matter of putting to death the famous Nazarene leader,...
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HE EXAMINED
(ανακρινας). First aorist active participle of
ανακρινω, old verb to sift up and down, to question
thoroughly, in a forensic sense (Luke 23:14; Acts 4:9; Acts 12:19;...
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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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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...
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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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_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...
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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
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_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...
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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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1 Kings 20:43; 1 Samuel 23:14; Acts 21:8; Acts 25:13; Acts 12:4;...
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Examined [α ν α κ ρ ι ν α ς]. See on Luke 23:14; and compare
ch. 4 9. Put to death [α π α χ θ η ν α ι]. Lit., led away; i
e., to execution. A technical phrase like the Latin ducere. Compare
Matthew 27...
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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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Herod commanded them to be put to death — And thus the wicked
suffered in the room of the righteous. And going down from Judea —
With shame, for not having brought forth Peter, according to his
promis...