Acts 12:1
Now during that time Herod the king laid his hands on Moshiachʼs Kehillah to harm some of them.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
In Context
2He killed Ya'akov the ach Yochanan with a cherev (sword).
Cross References
Matthew 24:9Then they will hand you over to tzoros and they will kill you and you will be hated by all the ethnic groups on account of the Name of me (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, Yeshua).
John 15:20Put in zikaron (remembrance) the dvar which I told you, An eved is not gadol (greater) than his Adon. If they brought redifah (persecution) on me, they will also bring redifah on you. If over my dvar they were shomer, also over yours they will be shomer.
Acts 4:30While You stretch out Your hand for refu'ah and otot and moftim to occur through the Shem of Your Eved HaKadosh Yehoshua.
Matthew Henry on Acts 12:1
In this chapter we have the story, I. Of the martyrdom of James the apostle, and the imprisonment of Peter by Herod Agrippa, who now reigned as king in Judea, ver. 1-4 . II. The miraculous deliverance of Peter out of prison by the ministry of an angel, in answer to the prayers of the church for him, ver. 6-19 . III. The cutting off of Herod in the height of his pride by the stroke of an angel, the minister of God's justice ( ver. 20-23 ); and this was done while Barnabas and Saul were at Jerusalem, upon the errand… Read the whole commentary →