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James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12 About that time King Herod[a] laid hands on[b] some from the church to harm them.[c] He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 12:1 sn King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, Ant. 18-19. This event took place in a.d. 42 or 43.
  2. Acts 12:1 tn Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”
  3. Acts 12:1 tn Or “to cause them injury.”
  4. Acts 12:2 sn The expression executed with a sword probably refers to a beheading. James was the first known apostolic martyr (Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. 2.9.1-3). On James, not the Lord’s brother, see Luke 5:10; 6:14. This death ended a short period of peace noted in Acts 9:31 after the persecution mentioned in 8:1-3.

Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison

12 It was about this time that King Herod(A) arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John,(B) put to death with the sword.(C)

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