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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 12:1-19

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 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 chapter seem to have occurred during the stay of these brethren in Jerusalem (Acts 12:25). As the predicted famine broke out under Cuspius Fadus, who was sent to Judæa after the death of Agrippa—i.e., after August 6th, A.D. 44—the visit of Barnabas and Saul most likely took place before Agrippa’s death.... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 12:1

Herod Herod Agrippa I., grandson of Herod the Great, (See Scofield " :-") , a strict observer of the law, and popular with the Jews, see Acts 12:21. Herod Agrippa II., Paul's Agrippa, was his son. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 12:1-25

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 is a little difficult to keep them all straight. In fact, I don't expect you to keep them all straight. This particular Herod was Herod Agrippa I. He was the grandson of Herod the Great who was the Herod at the time of the birth of Jesus. Herod the Great had ten wives. One of his wives, Miriam, had... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 12:1-25

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, Herod the king stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church, by imprisonment, fines, and banishment. This was not Herod the Askelonite, whose son was slain among the infants of Bethlehem; nor Herod Antipas, who had beheaded John; but Herod Agrippa, brother of the incestuous Herodias, the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 12:1-19

Acts 12:1-19Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church. Herod the kingThe previous life of this prince had been full of strange vicissitudes. The son of Aristobulus and Bernice, grandson of Herod the Great, brother of the Herodias who appears in the gospel history, named after the statesman who was the chief minister of Augustus, he had been sent, after his father had fallen a victim (B.C. 6) to his grandfather’s suspicions, to Rome, partly perhaps... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 12:1

1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. Ver. 1. Now about that time ] That the famine lay sore upon the Church. Afflictions seldom come single. The saints usually fall into various temptations at once, James 1:2 . Fluctus fluctum trudit. Job’s messengers tread one upon the heels of another. Herod the king ] Nephew to Herod the Great, brother to Herodias, and father to that Agrippa, Acts 25:13 . read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 12:2

2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. Ver. 2. And he killed James the brother ] So styled to distinguish him from the other James, called James the Less, kinsman to Christ, and bishop of Jerusalem, as the ancients style him. (Chrysost. Hom. xxxiii, in Act.) It was wonder that Herod killed no more, seeing this took so well with the people, whose favour he coveted. When Stephen the protomartyr of the Church was stoned, Dorotheus testifieth that two thousand other believers... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Acts 12:1

Cir, am 4048, ad 44 stretched forth his hands: or, began, Acts 4:30, Acts 9:31, Luke 22:53 to vex: Matthew 10:17, Matthew 10:18, Matthew 24:9, John 15:20, John 16:2 Reciprocal: Genesis 37:22 - lay 1 Samuel 17:36 - seeing Job 15:25 - he stretcheth Psalms 2:2 - kings Psalms 55:20 - put Psalms 92:8 - art most Jeremiah 26:23 - who Matthew 2:15 - until Mark 3:17 - James Mark 13:9 - take Luke 11:49 - and some Luke 21:12 - before 1 Thessalonians 2:14 - even read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Acts 12:2

James: Matthew 4:21, Matthew 4:22, Matthew 20:23, Mark 10:35, Mark 10:38 with: 1 Kings 19:1, 1 Kings 19:10, Jeremiah 26:23, Hebrews 11:37 Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:36 - seeing Psalms 37:14 - wicked Daniel 11:33 - yet Matthew 10:2 - James Matthew 23:34 - ye Matthew 24:9 - shall they Mark 1:19 - James Mark 6:21 - when Mark 10:39 - Ye Luke 6:14 - James Luke 11:49 - and some Luke 21:16 - and some Acts 1:13 - Peter read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 12:1

About that time - So wisely did God mix rest and persecution in due time and measure succeeding each other. Herod - Agrippa; the latter was his Roman, the former his Syrian name. He was the grandson of Herod the Great, nephew to Herod Antipas, who beheaded John the Baptist; brother to Herodias, and father to that Agrippa before whom St. Paul afterward made his defence. Caligula made him king of the tetrarchy of his uncle Philip, to which he afterward added the territories of Antipas. Claudius... read more