Actes 12:1

1 En ce même temps, le roi Hérode se mit à maltraiter quelques-uns de l'Église.

Actes 12:1 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 12:1

Now about that time
That the famine was in Judea, and Saul and Barnabas were sent thither with what the church at Antioch had collected.

Herod the king;
not Herod the great that slew the infants at Bethlehem, nor Herod Antipas that beheaded John, but Herod Agrippa; and so the Syriac version adds here, "who is surnamed Agrippa"; he was a grandson of Herod the great, and the son of Aristobulus: this prince

stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church;
Beza's ancient copy adds, "in Judea": it seems to be the church at Jerusalem; perhaps some of the principal members of them; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, the rulers of the house of God. It is scarcely credible that he should lay hands on any of them himself in person; but it is very likely he encouraged his soldiers, or his servants, to abuse them, reproach them, strike and buffet them, as they met with them in the streets; or when at worship, might disturb them, and break them up.

Actes 12:1 In-Context

1 En ce même temps, le roi Hérode se mit à maltraiter quelques-uns de l'Église.

2 Il fit mourir par l'épée Jacques, frère de Jean;

3 Et voyant que cela était agréable aux Juifs, il fit aussi arrêter Pierre.

4 C'était pendant les jours des pains sans levain. L'ayant donc fait arrêter, il le fit mettre en prison, et le donna à garder à quatre escouades, de quatre soldats chacune, voulant l'exposer au supplice devant le peuple, après la Pâque.

5 Pierre était donc gardé dans la prison; mais l'Église faisait sans cesse des prières à Dieu pour lui.