Acts 12:1
Nowe about that time, Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vexe certaine of the Church,
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- Matt 24:9 : 9 Then shal they deliuer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my Names sake.
- Luke 22:53 : 53 When I was dayly with you in the Temple, yee stretched not foorth the handes against mee: but this is your very houre, and the power of darkenesse.
- Matt 10:17-18 : 17 But beware of men, for they will deliuer you vp to the Councils, and will scourge you in their Synagogues. 18 And ye shal be brought to the gouernours and Kings for my sake, in witnes to them, and to the Gentiles.
- John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.
- John 16:2 : 2 They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice.
- Acts 4:30 : 30 So that thou stretch forth thine hand, that healing, and signes, and wonders may be done by the Name of thine holy Sonne Iesus.
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- Acts 12:2-65 verses78%
2And he killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword.
3And when he sawe that it pleased the Iewes, he proceeded further, to take Peter also (then were the dayes of vnleauened bread.)
4And when he had caught him, he put him in prison, and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kept, intending after the Passeouer to bring him foorth to the people.
5So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer was made of ye Church vnto God for him.
6And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people, the same night slept Peter betweene two souldiers, bound with two chaines, and the keepers before the doore, kept the prison.
- Acts 12:18-214 verses74%
18Nowe assoone as it was day, there was no small trouble among the souldiers, what was become of Peter.
19And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commaunded them to be led to be punished; he went downe from Iudea to Cesarea, and there abode.
20Then Herod was angrie with them of Tyrus and Sidon, but they came all with one accord vnto him, and perswaded Blastus the Kings Chamberlaine, and they desired peace, because their countrey was nourished by the Kings land.
21And vpon a day appointed, Herod arayed himselfe in royall apparell, and sate on the iudgement seate, and made an oration vnto them.
- Luke 3:19-202 verses74%
19But when Herod the Tetrarch was rebuked of him, for Herodias his brother Philips wife, and for all the euils which Herod had done,
20He added yet this aboue all, that he shut vp Iohn in prison.
- Acts 4:26-283 verses73%
26The Kings of the earth assembled, and the rulers came together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
27For doutlesse, against thine holy Sonne Iesus, whome thou haddest anoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together,
28To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.
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1At that time Herod the Tetrarche heard of the fame of Iesus,
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3When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Hierusalem with him.
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3For Herod had taken Iohn, and bounde him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.
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7And when he knewe that he was of Herods iurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, which was also at Hierusalem in those dayes.
- Mark 6:16-216 verses71%
16So when Herod heard it, he said, It is Iohn whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
17For Herod him selfe had sent forth, & had taken Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, which was his brother Philippes wife, because he had maried her.
18For Iohn sayd vnto Herod, It is not lawfull for thee to haue thy brothers wife.
19Therefore Herodias layd waite against him, & would haue killed him, but she could not:
20For Herod feared Iohn, knowing that hee was a iust man, and an holy, and reuerenced him, and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
21But the time being conuenient, when Herod on his birth day made a banket to his princes and captaines, and chiefe estates of Galile:
- Matt 14:5-62 verses70%
5And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.
6But when Herods birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunced before them, and pleased Herod.
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12But before all these, they shal lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.
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7Nowe Herod the Tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he douted, because that it was sayd of some, that Iohn was risen againe from the dead:
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31The same day there came certaine Pharises, and said vnto him, Depart, and goe hence: for Herod will kill thee.
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8Then they troubled the people, and the heads of the citie, when they heard these things.
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12Thus they mooued the people & the Elders, and the Scribes: and running vpon him, caught him, and brought him to the Councill,
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7Then Herod priuily called the Wisemen, and diligently inquired of them the time of the starre that appeared,
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6And the Pharises departed, & straightway gathered a councill with the Herodians against him, that they might destroy him.
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16Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the Wisemen, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slew all the male children that were in Beth-leem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeere old and vnder, according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the Wisemen.
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11And Herod with his men of warre, despised him, and mocked him, and arayed him in white, and sent him againe to Pilate.
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10And sent, and beheaded Iohn in the prison.
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1Nowe in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being gouernour of Iudea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galile, and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the countrey of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene,
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11And when Peter was come to himselfe, he said, Nowe I know for a trueth, that the Lord hath sent his Angel, and hath deliuered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the wayting for of the people of the Iewes.
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14Then King Herod heard of him (for his name was made manifest) and sayd, Iohn Baptist is risen againe from the dead, and therefore great workes are wrought by him.
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3But Saul made hauocke of the Church, and entred into euery house, and drewe out both men and women, and put them into prison.
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18And laide hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.
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9Then Herod sayd, Iohn haue I beheaded: who then is this of whome I heare such things? And he desired to see him.
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27And immediately the King sent the hangman, and gaue charge that his head shoulde be brought in. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,
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15Of whom when I came to Hierusalem, the high Priestes and Elders of the Iewes informed me, and desired to haue iudgement against him.
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7But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him out of our handes,
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12And when Iesus had heard that Iohn was committed to prison, he returned into Galile.
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1And Saul consented to his death, and at that time, there was a great persecution against the Church which was at Hierusalem, and they were all scattered abroad thorowe the regions of Iudea and of Samaria, except the Apostles.
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13And after certaine dayes, King Agrippa and Bernice came downe to Cæsarea to salute Festus.
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5And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and of the Iewes with their rulers, to doe them violence, and to stone them,
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6And Annas the chiefe Priest, and Caiaphas, and Iohn, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the hie Priestes.