Acts 12:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

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  • Matt 24:9 : 9 then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;
  • Luke 22:53 : 53 while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.'
  • Matt 10:17-18 : 17 And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you, 18 and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
  • John 15:20 : 20 `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;
  • John 16:2 : 2 out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;
  • Acts 4:30 : 30 in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.'

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    2 and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword,

    3 and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --

    4 whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered `him' to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

    5 Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,

    6 and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,

  • Acts 12:18-21
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    18 And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter,

    19 and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command `them' to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Cesarea, he was abiding `there'.

    20 And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who `is' over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's;

    21 and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,

  • Luke 3:19-20
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    19 and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,

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

  • Acts 4:26-28
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    26 the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

    27 for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

    28 to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

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    1 At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus,

  • Matt 2:3
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    3 And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,

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    3 For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

  • Luke 23:7
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    7 and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.

  • Mark 6:16-21
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    16 And Herod having heard, said -- `He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

    17 For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

    18 for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

    19 and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

    20 for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

    21 And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,

  • Matt 14:5-6
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    5 and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

    6 But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

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    12 and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

  • Luke 9:7
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    7 And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;

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    8 And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,

  • Acts 6:12
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    12 They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon `him', they caught him, and brought `him' to the sanhedrim;

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    7 Then Herod, privately having called the mages, did inquire exactly from them the time of the appearing star,

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    6 and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against him how they might destroy him.

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    16 Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

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    11 and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

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    10 and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

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  • Acts 12:11
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    11 And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

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    14 And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- `John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

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    18 and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

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    7 and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,

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