Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
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Barnes' Notes
Now about that time - That is, during the time that the famine existed, or the time when Barnabas and Saul went up to Jerusalem. This was probably about the fifth or sixth year of the reign of…
Adam Clarke
Herod the king - This was Herod Agrippa, the son of Aristobulus, and grandson of Herod the Great; he was nephew to Herod Antipas, who beheaded John they Baptist, and brother to Herodias. He was made…
Ever since the conversion of Paul, we have heard no more of the agency of the priests in persecuting the saints at Jerusalem; perhaps that wonderful change wrought upon him, and the disappointment it…
Cambridge Bible
Act 12:1-12. Herod's persecution of the Church. Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison
1. Now about that time The events here narrated must have shortly preceded Herod's death, and so the…
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