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NO SMALL STIR - Amazement that he had escaped, and apprehension of the
consequences. The punishment which they had reason to expect, for
having suffered his escape, was death....
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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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AS SOON AS, &C. = day having come.
STIR. disturbance. Greek. _tarachos._ Here and Acts 19:23.
AMONG. Greek. _en._ App-104.
WHAT WAS, &C. Literally what then Peter had come to be....
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_stir among the soldiers_ For the guards who had been chained to the
prisoner would discover as soon as they awoke, that he had escaped
from between them, and they would know that their lives would pr...
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ΤΆΡΑΧΟΣ ΟΥ̓Κ ὈΛΊΓΟΣ ἘΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ
ΣΤΡΑΤΙΏΤΑΙΣ, _no small stir among the soldiers_. For the
guards who had been chained to the prisoner would discover as soon as
they awoke that he had escaped from between...
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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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ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΗΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.), см._ Acts 12:5.
_Gen. abs._
ΤΆΡΑΧΟΣ (G5017) сопереживание,
ΆΡ (G686) следовательно, тогда; вводная
частица,
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 12:5...
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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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18, 19. The escape of Peter had been altogether unobserved by the
soldiers who guarded him. The two who were chained to him in the
prison slept on till day, and those guarding the outside changed thei...
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Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers, what was become of Peter.
NOW AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY. His deliverance must have been during the
fourth and last watch of the n...
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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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τάραχος (generally ταραχή): only in Acts 19:23, although
several times in LXX. οὐκ ὀλίγος : only found in Acts,
where it occurs eight times (litotes), _cf._ Acts 19:11; Acts 20:12;...
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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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(8) Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers, what was become of Peter.
(8) Evil counsel in the end results in the hurt of those who devised
it....
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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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18._When it was day. _Luke returneth now unto Herod and the soldiers;
and he saith that there was no small ado amongst them. For they could
not suspect that Peter was taken from them by violence, or t...
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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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Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers,
what was become of Peter.
Ver. 18. _There was no small stir_] Huddle or hubbub, ταραχος,
with fear and care how they should answ...
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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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NOW AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY, THERE WAS NO SMALL STIR AMONG THE SOLDIERS
WHAT WAS BECOME OF PETER....
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Peter leaves Jerusalem:...
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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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THEN, AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY, THERE WAS NO SMALL STIR AMONG THE
SOLDIERS ABOUT WHAT HAD BECOME OF PETER.
1. As it became daylight - just at dawn - the news of the "breakout"
was the buzz around the pa...
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"There was no small disturbance among the soldiers" Peter is not
discovered missing until dawn, which indicates that Peter was probably
delivered around midnight and the soldiers did not change shifts...
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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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The soldiers, who were bound with Peter in the same chains, could not
but miss him as soon as they did awake, and with admiration find the
chains still holding them, thought loosened from Peter. What...
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18, 19. The escape of Peter had been altogether unobserved by the
soldiers who guarded him. The two who were chained to him in the
prison slept on till day, and those guarding the outside changed thei...
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Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the
keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death,"[53]...
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Acts 12:18 Then G1161 was G1096 (G5637) day G2250 was G2258 (G5713) no
G3756 small G3641 stir...
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‘Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers, what was become of Peter.'
We could put it another way. A bombshell had been dropped among his
guards. They must have been appa...
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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 12:18. AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY. The angel's visit and Peter's
escape must have taken place during the last watch of the night,
between the hours of three and six; otherwise the absence of the
priso...
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AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY
(Γενομενης ημερας). Genitive absolute, day having
come.NO SMALL STIR
(ταραχος ουκ ολιγος). Litotes (ουκ ολιγος),
occurs eight times in the Acts as in Acts 15:2, and nowhere e...
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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 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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Acts 16:27; Acts 19:23; Acts 5:22...
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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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Observe here, 1. How wicked persecutors are mightily enraged, when
their bloody purposes are disappointed. Herod having lost his prize,
is so incensed, that he caused the keepers first to be examined,...