Acts 12:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the church.

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  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.
  • Luke 22:53 : 53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
  • Matt 10:17-18 : 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in theirs synagogues they will scourge you; 18 yea and before governors and kings shall ye be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
  • Acts 4:30 : 30 while thy stretchest forth thy hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant Jesus.

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    2And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

    3And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. And [those] were the days of unleavened bread.

    4And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

    5Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

    6And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.

  • Acts 12:18-21
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    18Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.

    19And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and tarried there.

    20Now he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was fed from the king's country.

    21And upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, and sat on the throne, and made an oration unto them.

  • Luke 3:19-20
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    19but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

    20added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

  • Acts 4:26-28
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    26The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the rulers were gathered together, Against the Lord, and against his Anointed:

    27for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,

    28to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.

  • Matt 14:1
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    1At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

  • Matt 2:3
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    3And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

  • Matt 14:3
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    3For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

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    7And when he knew that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him unto Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in these days.

  • Mark 6:16-21
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    16But Herod, when he heard [thereof], said, John, whom I beheaded, he is risen.

    17For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; for he had married her.

    18For John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

    19And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him; and she could not;

    20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was much perplexed; and he heard him gladly.

    21And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee;

  • Matt 14:5-6
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    5And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

    6But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.

  • Luke 21:12
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    12But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

  • Luke 9:7
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    7Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done: and he was much perplexed, because that it was said by some, that John was risen from the dead;

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    31In that very hour there came certain Pharisees, saying to him, Get thee out, and go hence: for Herod would fain kill thee.

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    8And they troubled the multitude and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

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    12And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,

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    7Then Herod privily called the Wise-men, and learned of them exactly what time the star appeared.

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    6And the Pharisees went out, and straightway with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

  • Matt 2:16
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    16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.

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    11And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate.

  • Matt 14:10
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    10and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

  • Luke 3:1
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    11And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a truth, that the Lord hath sent forth his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

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    3But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.

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    18and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public ward.

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    9And Herod said, John I beheaded: but who is this, about whom I hear such things? And he sought to see him.

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    27And straightway the king sent forth a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring his head: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

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    7(Ommitted)

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    13Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus.

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    5And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them,

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    6and Annas the high priest [was there], and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.