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James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12 About that time King Herod[a] laid hands on[b] some from the church to harm them.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 12:1 sn King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, Ant. 18-19. This event took place in a.d. 42 or 43.
  2. Acts 12:1 tn Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”
  3. Acts 12:1 tn Or “to cause them injury.”

Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison

12 It was about this time that King Herod(A) arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.

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