Acts 12:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² He killed James the brother of John with the sword;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And he killed James the brother of John with a sword;

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

Common English Bible

² He had James, John’s brother, killed with a sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Then he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Acts 12:2 Cross References

1 Kings 19:1

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 19:10

He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

Jeremiah 26:23

and they fetched Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

Matthew 20:23

He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Mark 10:35

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him, and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

Mark 10:39

And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;

Acts 12:1

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

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—