Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Acts 12:9
Verse Acts 12:9. He - wist not] He knew not; from the Anglo-Saxon, [A.S.], to know. He supposed himself to be in a dream.
Verse Acts 12:9. He - wist not] He knew not; from the Anglo-Saxon, [A.S.], to know. He supposed himself to be in a dream.
ACTS 12:8-9 Between verses Acts 12:8 and Acts 12:9 copG67 adds the sentence, “But he [the angel] seized him [Peter] and drew him along and to...
AND WIST NOT - Knew not. THAT IT WAS TRUE - That it was real. BUT THOUGHT HE SAW A VISION - He supposed that it was a representation made to his mind similar to what he had seen before. Compare Acts...
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)...
HIM. The texts omit. WIST. knew. Greek. _oida._ App-132. TRUE. Greek. _alethes._ App-175. BY. through. Greek. _dia._ THOUGHT. was thinking. SAW. Greek. _blepo._ App-133. VISION. Greek. _horama,_...
αὐτῷ omitted with אABD. _Vulg_. represents it....
Acts 12:1-12. HEROD’S PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH. PETER’S MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE FROM PRISON...
_PETER COULD NOT BE KEPT IN PRISON ACTS 12:6-12:_ The night before Peter was to be put on trial, he was asleep and bound by two chains. Two soldiers were guarding him and other soldiers were guarding...
ΈΞΕΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить. _Сопутств._ или _temp. part._ ΉΚΟΛΟΎΘΕΙ _impf. ind. act., см._ Acts 12:8. Inch, _impf._: "он начал следовать" ΉΔΕΙ _plperf. ind. act._ def. pe...
AND WIST NOT— _And knew not._...
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...
See notes one verse 7...
And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. AND HE WENT OUT, AND FOLLOWED [HIM], [ autoo (G846) is probably not genuine,...
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...
12:9 know (a-10) Conscious knowledge....
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...
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...
AND WIST NOT THAT IT WAS TRUE... — The kind of introspective analysis of the Apostle’s consciousness suggests the thought that he was himself, possibly through some intermediate channel, St. Luke’s in...
ἐδόκει δὲ ὅραμα βλέπειν : even those who regard the narrative as unhistorical can scarcely say that the writer cannot understand how to distinguish between an actual fact and a vision; moreover, this...
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...
Peter thinks he is in a trance and sees a vision. Now they pass by the first and second guard and come to the great iron gate that leads out into the city. Peter is soliloquizing: “Though I have esca...
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. (7) And, behold, the angel...
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...
9._He knew not that it was true. _He did not think that it was a vain or false visor, as Satan doth oftentimes delude men with jugglings; but_true _is taken in this place for that which is done natura...
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...
AND HE WENT OUT AND FOLLOWED HIM,.... He came out from between the two soldiers, and out of that apartment in the prison, in which he was, and followed the angel where he led him: AND WIST NOT THAT I...
And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. Ver. 9. _And wist not that it was true_] So Psalms 126:1. God is often bette...
_And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him_ Greek, επεστη, _stood over him; and a light shined in the prison_ Εν τω οικηματι, _in the house_, the whole house in which he was confined; _and he sm...
WIST NOT; knew not. THAT IT WAS TRUE; that it was a real event, as distinguished from a vision....
AND HE WENT OUT AND FOLLOWED HIM, AND WIST NOT THAT IT WAS TRUE WHICH WAS DONE BY THE ANGEL, BUT THOUGHT HE SAW A VISION....
The miraculous deliverance:...
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...
SO HE WENT OUT AND FOLLOWED HIM, AND DID NOT KNOW THAT WHAT WAS DONE BY THE ANGEL WAS REAL, BUT THOUGHT HE WAS SEEING A VISION. 1. What is happening? Is it a dream? Is it real? 2. Peter did not unde...
Peter thinks he is involved in some sort of vision, (remember such had happened to him in Acts 10:1.) "Peter may have felt as the proverb states, ‘Don't pinch me,. may be dreaming'" (Reese p. 433). Th...
6-11 A peaceful conscience, a lively hope, and the consolations of the Holy Spirit, can keep men calm in the full prospect of death; even those very persons who have been most distracted with terrors...
The greatnesss and suddenness of the deliverance was such, as it amazed him, it seemed incredible unto him: not that he questioned God's power or godliness; but knowing that he was to suffer for Chris...
Acts 12:9 So G2532 out G1831 (G5631) followed G190 (G5707) him G846 and G2532 not G3756 know...
‘And he went out, and followed, and he did not know that what was done by the angel was true, but thought he saw a vision.' Peter did as he was bid as though in a dream. He went out and followed the...
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 12:9-10. AND HE WENT OUT, AND FOLLOWED HIM.... WHEN THEY WERE PAST THE FIRST AND THE SECOND WARD, THEY CAME UNTO THE IRON GATE THAT LEADETH UNTO THE CITY. Silently, without a word, the radiant Me...
WIST NOT (ουκ ηιδε). Past perfect of οιδα used as imperfect, did not know.FOLLOWED (ηκολουθε). Imperfect active, kept on following as the angel had directed (verse Acts 12:8). That it was true (ο...
ANGEL See note, (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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...
HE THOUGHT HE WAS SEEING A VISION. That is, he thought he was dreaming. THE GATE OPENED FOR THEM BY ITSELF. The outer gate of the prison. NOW I KNOW. After the angel leaves him outside on the street,...
_And behold the angel of the Lord came upon him._ THE TENDER OFFICES OF ANGELS TOWARDS THE SAINTS OF GOD It enhances the moral dignity of the Christian that he should have such exalted beings in cons...
_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...
2 Corinthians 12:1; Acts 10:17; Acts 10:3; Acts 11:5; Acts 26:19;...
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...