Acts 12:23

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Suddenly, an angel from God struck him [with a terrible condition] because he refused to honor God [by what he said in his speech], so he was consumed by worms and died.

Cross References

Acts 12:22

The people began shouting, “His is the voice of a god and not a man.”

Acts 5:19

But an angel from the Lord one night [miraculously] opened the jail doors and released them, saying,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

[for] he opposes [the true Gospel message] and exalts himself against everything that is called “God” or that which is worshiped. So, he sits in God’s temple [i.e., the church (?)] displaying himself as [though he were] God.