Acts 12:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ When he had seized him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And when he had seized [Peter], he put him in prison and delivered him to four squads of soldiers of four each to guard him, purposing after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

Common English Bible

⁴ He put Peter in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers, sixteen in all, who guarded him. He planned to charge him publicly after the Passover.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ So when he had apprehended him, he sent him into prison, handing him over into the custody of four groups of four soldiers, intending to produce him to the people after the Passover.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.

Acts 12:4 Cross References

Esther 3:13

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, giving orders to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, children and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

Exodus 12:1

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

Proverbs 19:21

The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Lamentations 3:37

Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?

Matthew 24:9

“Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Matthew 26:5

But they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.”

Mark 14:1

It was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him,

Luke 21:12

“But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

Luke 22:33

And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death!”

John 19:23

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

John 21:18

Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.”

Acts 12:3

After he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (This was during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.)

Acts 12:5

While Peter was kept in prison, the church prayed fervently to God for him.

Acts 4:28

to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

Acts 4:3

So they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

Acts 5:18

arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.