And when Herod had sought for him and found him
not
Neither in the prison, nor in any part of the city:
he examined the keepers;
of the prison, and those that were upon the watch, whether they
had not been accessary to his escape:
and commanded that they should be put to death:
or brought forth, not before a judge to be tried and judged,
because they had been examined by Herod already; but either that
they should be carried and laid in bonds, or be led forth to
suffer punishment; and so our version directs, and which is
confirmed by the Syriac; and the Greeks say F14, that
(apagwgh) is a kind of
punishment:
and he went down from Judea to Caesarea;
not Peter, but Herod:
and there abode;
of this journey of Agrippa's to Caesarea, Josephus makes mention
F15; this place was distant from
Jerusalem six hundred furlongs, or seventy five miles F16.
F14 Harpocratian. Lex. p. 32.
F15 Antiqu. l. 19. c. 2. sect. 2.
F16 De Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 3. sect. 5.