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Acts 12:1

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James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12:1About that time King Herod1 laid hands on2 some from the church to harm them.3

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Footnotes

  1. 1 King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, 18–19. This event took place in a.d. 42 or 43.
  2. 2 Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”
  3. 3 Or “to cause them injury.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

About that time King Herod violently attacked some who belonged to the church,

NLTNew Living Translation

About that time King Herod Agrippa began to persecute some believers in the church.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now at that time, Herod the king laid hands on some of those from the church to harm them.

KJV 1900King James Version

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.