Hechos 12:4

4 Después lo metió en la cárcel y lo puso bajo la vigilancia de cuatro escuadrones de cuatro soldados cada uno. Herodes tenía pensado llevar a Pedro a juicio público después de la Pascua.

Hechos 12:4 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 12:4

When he had apprehended him
When his officers he sent to take him had brought him:

he put him in prison;
in the common prison, very likely where he had been once before, ( Acts 5:18 )

and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him;
each quaternion consisted of four soldiers, so that they were in all sixteen; and so the Syriac version renders it, "and delivered him to sixteen soldiers": how the Ethiopic version should make "seventeen" of them is pretty strange: these perhaps might take their turns to watch him by four at a time, two to whom he was chained, and two others to keep the doors; or all the sixteen together, being posted in one place or another for greater security: and it may be, that the reason of all this caution, and strong guard, might be, because it was remembered that he, and the rest of the apostles, when committed to the same prison some years ago, were delivered out of it:

intending after Easter,
or the passover,

to bring him forth to the people;
to insult and abuse him, and to put him to what death they should desire.

Hechos 12:4 In-Context

2 Mandó matar a espada al apóstol Santiago (hermano de Juan).

3 Cuando Herodes vio cuánto esto le agradó al pueblo judío, también arrestó a Pedro. (Eso sucedió durante la celebración de la Pascua).

4 Después lo metió en la cárcel y lo puso bajo la vigilancia de cuatro escuadrones de cuatro soldados cada uno. Herodes tenía pensado llevar a Pedro a juicio público después de la Pascua.

5 Pero, mientras Pedro estaba en la cárcel, la iglesia oraba fervientemente por él.

6 Pedro escapa milagrosamente de la cárcel
La noche antes de ser sometido a juicio, Pedro dormía sujetado con dos cadenas entre dos soldados. Otros hacían guardia junto a la puerta de la prisión.