11:30. Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts Chapter 12
Herod's persecution. Peter's deliverance by an angel. Herod's punishment.
12:1. And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to afflict some of the church.
12:2. And he killed James, the brother of John, With the sword.
12:3. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes.
Azymes. . .The festival of the unleavened bread, or the pasch, which answers to our Easter.
12:4. 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.
12:5. Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.
12:6. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.