Acts 12:19

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Whan Herode had called for him, and founde him not, he caused the kepers to be examyned, and commaunded the to be caried awaye, and he wente downe fro Iewry vnto Cesarea, and there abode.

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  • Acts 16:27 : 27 Wha the keper of the preson waked out of slepe, and sawe the preson dores open, he drue out his swerde, and wolde haue kylled him selfe: for he thoughte ye presoners had bene fled.
  • Acts 21:8 : 8 On the nexte daye we yt were with Paul, departed, and came vnto Cesarea, & entred in to the house of Philippe the Euangelist (which was one of the seue) and abode with him.
  • Acts 25:13 : 13 After certayne dayes came kynge Agrippa and Bernice to Cesarea to welcome Festus.
  • Acts 27:42 : 42 The soudyers councell was to kyll ye presoners, lest eny of them whan he had swymmed out, shulde flye awaye.
  • 1 Sam 23:14 : 14 As for Dauid, he remayned in the wildernes in the castell, and abode vpon the mount in the wildernes of Siph. But Saul soughte him as longe as he lyued. Neuertheles God gaue him not in to his handes.
  • 1 Kgs 20:43 : 43 And the kynge of Israel departed vnto his house, beinge troubled in his mynde and full indignacion, and came to Samaria.
  • Esth 6:12 : 12 And Mardocheus came agayne to the kynges gate, but Aman gat him home in all the haist, mournynge with bare heade,
  • Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The lawe of his God is in his hert, therfore shal not his fotesteppes slyde. 33 The vngodly seyth the rightuous, & goeth aboute to slaye him.
  • Jer 36:26 : 26 but commaunded Ieramyhel the sonne off Amalech, Sarias the sonne of Esriel and Selamia ye sonne of Abdiel, to laye hondes vpon Baruch the scrybe, and vpon Ieremy the prophet: but the LORDE kepte them out of sight.
  • Dan 2:11-13 : 11 for it is a very harde matter, that the kynge requyreth. Nether is there eny, that can certifie the kynge theroff, excepte the goddes: whose dwellinge is not amonge the creatures. 12 For ye which cause the kynge was wroth with greate indignacio, and comaunded to destroye all the wyse men at Babilon: 13 and ye proclamacion wete forth, that the wyse me shulde be slayne. They sought also to slaye Daniel with his copanyons.
  • Matt 2:13 : 13 When they were departed: beholde, the angell of the LORDE appered to Ioseph in a dreame, sayinge: aryse, and take the chylde and his mother, and flye into Egypte, and abyde there tyll I brynge the worde. For Herod wyl seke the chylde to destroye hym.
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod perceauynge yt he was disceaued of the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth, and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem, and in all the coastes there of, as many as were two yere olde and vnder, accordynge to the tyme which he had diligently searched out of the wyse men.
  • Matt 28:11-15 : 11 And whan they were gone, beholde, certayne of the watchmen came in to the cite, & tolde the hye prestes euery thinge that had happened. 12 And they came together with the elders, and helde a councell, and gaue ye souders money ynough, 13 and sayde: Saye ye: his disciples came by night, and stole him awaye, whyle we were a slepe. 14 And yf this come to the debytes eares, we wyl styll him, and brynge it so to passe, that ye shal be safe. 15 And they toke the money, and dyd as they were taught. And this sayenge is noysed amonge the Iewes vnto this daye.
  • John 12:10-11 : 10 But ye hye prestes were aduysed to put Lazarus to death also: 11 because yt for his sake many of the Iewes wete awaye and beleued on Iesus.
  • Acts 8:40 : 40 As for Philippe, he was founde at Assdod, and walked aboute, and preached the Gospell vnto all the cities, tyll he came to Cesarea.
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 Now whan he had taken him, he put him in preson, and delyuered him vnto foure quaternions of soudyers, to kepe him: and thought after Easter to bringe him forth to the people.
  • Acts 12:6 : 6 And whan Herode wolde haue broughte him out vnto the people, in the same nighte slepte Peter betwene two soudiers, bounde with two cheynes. And the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.

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    16But Peter contynued knockinge. Whan they opened the dore, they sawe him, and were astonnyed.

    17But he beckened vnto them with the hande, to holde their peace, & tolde them, how the LORDE had broughte him out of the preson. And he sayde: Shewe this vnto Iames, and to the brethren. And he departed, and wete in to another place.

    18Whan it was daye, there was not a litle a doo amoge the soudyers, what was become of Peter.

  • Acts 12:1-7
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    1At the same tyme layed kynge Herode handes vpon certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.

    2As for Iames the brother of Ihon, him he slewe with the swerde.

    3And whan he sawe that it pleased the Iewes, he proceaded farther to take Peter also. But it was Easter.

    4Now whan he had taken him, he put him in preson, and delyuered him vnto foure quaternions of soudyers, to kepe him: and thought after Easter to bringe him forth to the people.

    5And Peter was kepte in the preson But prayer was made without ceassinge of the congregacion, vnto God for him.

    6And whan Herode wolde haue broughte him out vnto the people, in the same nighte slepte Peter betwene two soudiers, bounde with two cheynes. And the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.

    7And beholde, the angell of the LORDE was there presente, and a lighte shyned in the habitacion, and he smote Peter on the syde, and waked him vp, and sayde: Aryse vp quyckly. And the cheynes fell of from his hondes.

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    10Neuertheles they wente thorow the first and seconde watch, and came to the yron gate, that ledeth vnto the cite, which opened to the by his awne acorde. And they wente out, and passed thorow one strete, and immediatly the angell departed from him.

    11And whan Peter was come to himself, he sayde: Now I knowe of a trueth, that ye LORDE hath sent his angell, and delyuered me out of the honde of Herode, and from all the waytinge for of the people of the Iewes.

    12And as he considered the thinge, he came to the house of Mary the mother of one Ihon, (which after his syrname was called Marke) where many were gathered together, and prayed.

  • 7And whan he perceaued that he was vnder Herodes iurisdiccion he sent him to Herode, which was also at Ierusale in those dayes.

  • 35he sayde: I wil heare the, whan thine accusers are come also. And he commaunded him to be kepte in Herodes iudgment house.

  • 15Nor yet Herode: for I sent you to him, and beholde, there is brought vpon hi nothinge, that is worthy of death.

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    20But he was displeased with the of Tyre and Sido. Neuertheles they came vnto him with one accorde, and made intercession to Blastus the kynges chamberlayne, and desyred peace, because their countre was norished by the kynges londe.

    21But vpon a daye appoynted, Herode put on ye kyngly apparell, sat him downe vpon the iudgment seate, and made an oracion vnto them.

  • 9And Herode sayde: Iho haue I beheaded, who is this then, of who I heare soch thinges? And he desyred to se him.

  • Acts 5:22-23
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    22The mynisters came and founde them not in the preson, came agayne, and tolde,

    23and sayde:The preson founde we shut with all diligence, and the kepers stondinge without before the dores: but wha we had opened, we founde noman therin.

  • 20Notwithstodinge Herode feared Iho, for he knew that he was a iust and holy man: and he kepte him, and herkened vnto him in many thinges, and herde him gladly.

  • 6Whan he had taried amonge them more then ten dayes, he wente downe to Cesarea. And on the nexte daye he sat downe on the iudgment seate, and commaunded Paul to be broughte.

  • 5And fayne wolde he haue put him to death, but he feared the people, because they helde him for a Prophet.

  • 58As for Peter, he folowed him a farre of vnto the hye prestes palace, & wente in, and sat with the seruauntes, that he might se the ende.

  • 23Then called he them in, and lodged them.The nexte daye after wente Peter forth with them, and certayne brethren of Ioppa bare him company.

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    54Neuerthelesse they toke him, and led him, and brought him in to the hye prestes house. As for Peter, he folowed hi a farre of.

    55Then kyndled they a fyre in the myddest of the palace, and sat them downe together. And Peter sat him downe amonge them.

  • 4Then answered Festus, that Paul shulde be kepte at Cesarea, but that he himselfe wolde shortly go thither agayne.

  • 9And he axed him many thinges. Neuertheles he answered him nothinge.

  • 12When Iesus had herde that Ihon was taken, he departed into Galile

  • 27And immediatly he sent the hangman, and commaunded his heade to be brought in. So he wete, and heeded him in the preson,

  • 25But whan I perceaued that he had done nothinge worthy off death, and that he himselfe also had appealed vnto the Emperoure, I determyned to sende him,

  • 66And Peter was beneth in ye palace. The came one of the wenches of the hye prest:

  • 20besydes all this he layed Iho in preson.

  • 16But when Herode herde it, he sayde: It is Ihon whom I beheeded, he is rysen againe from the deed.

  • 8and tolde them all, and sent the to Ioppa.

  • 7Herode the Tetrarcha herde of all that was done by him. And he toke care, for so moch as it was sayde of some: Iho is rysen agayne from the deed:

  • 31and wente asyde, and talked together, and sayde: This man hath done nothinge that is worthy of death or of bondes.

  • 19When Herode was deed: beholde, an angell of the LORDE appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte,

  • 7Then Herod preuely called the wyse men, and dyligently enquyred of them, what tyme the starre appered,

  • 3When Herode ye kynge had herde thys, he was troubled, & all Ierusale with hym,

  • 18and called, and axed whether Simon (whose syrname was Peter) were lodged there.

  • 22But whe he herde that Archelaus did raygne in Iury, in ye rowme of his father Herode, he was afrayde to go thither. Notwithstondinge after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned asyde into the parties of Galile,

  • 10and sent, & beheeded Ihon in the preson.

  • 27Of a trueth agaynst thy holy childe Iesus, whom thou hast anoynted, both Herode & Pontius Pilate with the Heythen and people of Israel, haue gathered the selues together,

  • 19which for insurreccion made in the cite, and because of a murthur, was cast in to preson.

  • 29then perceaued I, that he was accused aboute questions of their lawe. But there was no accusacion worthy of death or of bondes.

  • 18which wha they had examyned me, wolde haue let me go, for so moch as there was no cause of death i me.

  • 31Vpon the same daye there came certayne of ye Pharises, and sayde vnto him: Get the out of the waye, and departe hence, for Herode wyl kyll the.