Acts 12:23

Plain English Version

Herod liked their talk. He didn’t tell them that he is only a man, and that God is the great and powerful one. So then one of God’s angels punished Herod. That angel put worms inside of Herod’s body, and they ate his guts, and he died.

Cross References

Acts 12:22

They all wanted to make him happy so they shouted, “This is not a man talking. He is a god.”

Acts 5:19

But that night, God sent an angel messenger to Jesus’s special workers, and he opened the jail doors and let them out.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will reckon that he is better than God. He will fight against God, and against everything else that people think is a god. He will fight against everything that people respect in a spiritual way. He will even go into God’s ceremony house and sit down there, and tell everyone that he is God.

1 Samuel 25:38

After 10 days, God hit him properly, and he died.