Acts 12:17

New English Translation

He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and then related how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell James and the brothers these things,” and then he left and went to another place.

Cross References

Psalm 146:7

vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.

Psalm 66:16

Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.

Matthew 10:23

Whenever they persecute you in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Mark 6:3

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.

Luke 1:22

When he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They realized that he had seen a vision in the holy place, because he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak.

John 10:40

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

John 11:54

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

John 13:24

So Simon Peter gestured to this disciple to ask Jesus who it was he was referring to.

John 7:1

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

John 8:59

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

Acts 12:16

Now Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were greatly astonished.

Acts 12:18

At daybreak there was great consternation among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

Acts 13:16

So Paul stood up, gestured with his hand and said, “Men of Israel, and you Gentiles who fear God, listen:

Acts 15:13

After they stopped speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me.

Acts 16:40

When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed.

Acts 19:33

Some of the crowd concluded it was about Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front. Alexander, gesturing with his hand, was wanting to make a defense before the public assembly.

Acts 21:18

The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.

Acts 21:40

When the commanding officer had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and gestured to the people with his hand. When they had become silent, he addressed them in Aramaic,

Acts 28:15

The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.

1 Corinthians 15:7

Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

Galatians 1:19

But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.

Galatians 2:12

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

Galatians 2:9

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

James 1:1

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!