Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Acts 12:5
Without ceasing— The original word 'Εκτενης signifies not only continuance, but likewise earnestness, importunity, and vehemence.
Without ceasing— The original word 'Εκτενης signifies not only continuance, but likewise earnestness, importunity, and vehemence.
ACTS 12:5 Several Western witnesses (but not codex Bezae) expand the statement, “So Peter was kept in prison,” by adding the words “by a cohort of the king” (_a cohorte regis,_ itp1 vgms syrh with *...
Verse Acts 12:5. _PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING_] The Greek word εκτενης signifies both _fervour_ and _earnestness_, as well as _perseverance_. These prayers of the Church produced that miraculous i...
BUT PRAYER WAS MADE - The church was apprised of his imprisonment and danger, and had no resource but to apply to God by prayer. In scenes of danger there is no other refuge; and the result shows that...
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)...
THEREFORE. then indeed. PRAYER. Greek. _proseuche._ App-134. WITHOUT CEASING. intense, Greek. _ektenes._ Occurs elsewhere only in 1 Peter 4:8. The comparative only in Luke 22:44, and the adverb in 1...
_Peter therefore was kept in prison_ Another indication of the longer duration of the imprisonment, and that he was not arrested on the day of the Paschal sacrifice with the purpose of being brought f...
ἘΤΗΡΕΙ͂ΤΟ ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΦΥΛΑΚΗ͂Ι, _was kept_ [guarded] _in the prison_. Another indication of the intended longer duration of the imprisonment, and that he was not arrested on the day of the Paschal sacrifi...
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...
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DISCOURSE: 1773 PETER’S DELIVERANCE FROM PRISON Acts 12:5. _Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him_. THE Scriptures inform us, that “Go...
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...
5. We have noticed that when Peter and John were dismissed from the Sanhedrim, with a threat of violence if they dared any more to speak or teach in the name of Jesus, they came to their own company,...
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. PETER THEREFORE WAS KEPT IN PRISON - until the festival should close; little thinking that h...
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...
WITHOUT CEASING] RV 'earnestly.'...
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...
PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING. — The adjective is rendered by “fervent” in 1 Peter 4:8, and implies, as in the marginal reading, intensity as well as continuity. The words imply that the members of...
ὁ μὲν οὖν … προσευχὴ δὲ : both A. and R.V. regard προσ. δὲ in the same verse as the antithesis, but see Page's note, where the antithesis is found in Acts 12:6, ὅτε δέ. If we retain the former interpr...
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...
The Danger of Prayer While Herod waited for the end of Passover, the church waited in prayer. They asked God to be with Peter, whether in simply requesting that God help sustain his faith or have him...
(4) Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. (4) The prayers of the godly overturn the counsel of tyrants, obtain angels from God, break...
Peter is sound asleep, flat on his back, chained to a soldier on either side, the stilly hours of dulcet slumber treading slowly on, anticipating the day of his bloody martyrdom. He must have had perf...
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. (5) Peter therefore was k...
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...
_‘ANSWERED PRAYERS’_ ‘Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him.’ Acts 12:5 ‘But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that thro...
_A CHRISTIAN PRISONER_ ‘Peter therefore was kept in prison.’ Acts 12:5 There are prisons and prisons. If we could read each other’s hearts, I am afraid we should find many a disciple needing delive...
_THE CHURCH AT PRAYER_ ‘Prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him.’ Acts 12:5 ‘More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of,’ or that the Church dreams of either,...
5._But prayers were made. _Luke teacheth here that the faithful did not, in the mean season, foreslow [neglect] their duty, Peter stood in the forward (754) alone; but all the rest fought with their p...
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...
PETER THEREFORE WAS KEPT IN PRISON,.... Till the feast of the passover was at an end: BUT PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING OF THE CHURCH UNTO GOD FOR HIM; this was not done by them as a body together,...
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. Ver. 5. _Earnest prayer was made_] _Oratio sine malis, est ut avis sine alis._ These good souls...
_Peter therefore_ Till the day of his execution came; _was kept in prison_ Under the continual guard of the fore-mentioned soldiers. _But prayer without ceasing_ (The original expression, προσευχη εκτ...
In all seasons of trial the people of God have an unfailing support. To him they may apply, with full assurance that he deeply sympathizes in their trials, and in the best time and way will grant them...
PETER, THEREFORE, WAS KEPT IN PRISON; BUT PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING OF THE CHURCH UNTO GOD FOR HIM. At that time, at the time when Barnabas and Saul were sent on their embassy of charity, very p...
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...
PETER WAS THEREFORE KEPT IN PRISON, BUT CONSTANT PRAYER WAS OFFERED TO GOD FOR HIM BY THE CHURCH. 1. Meanwhile - the church was praying. 2. Constant Prayer - The situation with Peter was on the mind...
PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING: Or, instant and earnest prayer was made...
"But prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God" The adverb "fervently" implies both intensity and continuity. This term has been previously used of Jesus' intense agony in Gethseman...
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....
OLBGrk; PETER THEREFORE WAS KEPT IN PRISON, till a fit time to offer him up as a sacrifice unto the people: so basely do wicked men stoop for their ends. BUT PRAYER WAS MADE: the only help or hope poo...
5. We have noticed that when Peter and John were dismissed from the Sanhedrim, with a threat of violence if they dared any more to speak or teach in the name of Jesus, they came to their own company,...
Acts 12:5 Peter G4074 G3303 therefore G3767 kept G5083 (G5712) in G1722 prison G5438 but G1161 constant...
‘Peter therefore was kept in the prison. But prayer was made earnestly by the church to God for him.' He was right to be worried, but wrong to think that he could do anything against it. Here we have...
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 12:5. PETER THEREFORE WAS KEPT IN PRISON; BUT PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING OF THE CHURCH TO GOD FOR HIM. This verse is introduced between the account of the arrest and the miraculous deliveran...
THEREFORE (μεν ουν). Because of the preceding situation.WAS KEPT (ετηρειτο). Imperfect passive, continuously guarded, waiting for the feast to be over.BUT PRAYER WAS MADE EARNESTLY (προσευχη δε...
PRAYER Or, instant and earnest prayer was made. (2 Corinthians 1:11); (Ephesians 6:18)....
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...
BUT THE PEOPLE OF THE CHURCH. The _church_ is PEOPLE, and they joined together in prayer, asking God to help Peter in this problem. Prayer is much more powerful than we sometimes think. Compare James...
_Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him._ IN AND OUT OF PRISON (children’s sermon):-- 1. There is more than one way of getting into p...
_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...
_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 12:26; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; 2 Corinthians 1:11; Acts 12:12;...
Without ceasing [ε κ τ ε ν η ς]. Wrong. The word means earnest. See on fervently, 1 Peter 1:22; and compare instantly, Acts 26:7; more earnestly, Luke 22:44; fervent, 1 Pete
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...
Continual prayer was made for him — Yet when their prayer was answered, they could scarce believe it, Acts 12:15. But why had they not prayed for St. James also? Because he was put to death as soon as...
That is, fervent and importunate prayer was put up to God by the church on Peter's behalf: With the united strength of their whole souls they stormed heaven, and took him by force out of Herod's hand....