Acts 12:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people #– #young and old, women and children #– #and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
Many plans are in a person’s heart, but the Lord’s decree will prevail.
Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what a day might bring.
Who is there who speaks and it happens, unless the Lord has ordained it?
‘Then they will hand you over to be persecuted, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.
‘Not during the festival,’ they said, ‘so there won’t be rioting among the people.’
It was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a cunning way to arrest Jesus and kill him.
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you. They will hand you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
‘Lord,’ he told him, ‘I’m ready to go with you both to prison and to death.’
When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.
‘Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.’
When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.
to do whatever your hand and your will had predestined to take place.
So they seized them and took them into custody until the next day since it was already evening.
Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.