Actes 12:1

1 Vers le même temps, le roi Hérode se mit à maltraiter quelques membres de l'Eglise,

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 Vers le même temps, le roi Hérode se mit à maltraiter quelques membres de l'Eglise,
2 et il fit mourir par l'épée Jacques, frère de Jean.
3 Voyant que cela était agréable aux Juifs, il fit encore arrêter Pierre. -C'était pendant les jours des pains sans levain. -
4 Après l'avoir saisi et jeté en prison, il le mit sous la garde de quatre escouades de quatre soldats chacune, avec l'intention de le faire comparaître devant le peuple après la Pâque.
5 Pierre donc était gardé dans la prison; et l'Eglise ne cessait d'adresser pour lui des prières à Dieu.
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