Acts 12:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also .(Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 23:15
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread:(thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
Acts 24:27
But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
John 12:43
For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Leviticus 23:6-14
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. …
Exodus 12:14-20
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. …

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Demagogism Feasts Government Herod Instruction

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Ever since the conversion of Paul, we have heard no more of the agency of the priests in persecuting the saints at Jerusalem; perhaps that wonderful change wrought upon him, and the disappointment it gave to their design upon the Christians at Damascus, had somewhat mollified them, and brought them under the check of Gamaliel’s advice—to let those men alone, and see what would be the issue; but he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

Ac 12:1-19. Persecution of the Church by Herod Agrippa I--Martyrdom of James and Miraculous Deliverance of Peter. 1-3. Herod the king--grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus. He at this time ruled over all his father’s dominions. Paley has remarked the accuracy of the historian here. For thirty years before this there was no king at Jerusalem exercising supreme authority over Judea, n…