 | John Henry Jowett - 1911 - 138 pages
...came to the throne, but by ways of which they hadnever dreamed. " Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church....killed James the brother of John with the sword." ..." Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of! " James scaled his sovereignty by the bloody... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 pages
...eyes. China becomes like the Holy Land. Only .the other day Herod stretched forth his hand and vexed certain of the Church, and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. Did you not see it reported in all the papers? Only a year or two ago Stephen, a Christian preacher,... | |
 | 1837 - 1014 pages
...inimitable narrative recorded Acts xii. : " Now about that time Herod the King stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church. And he killed James...brother of John with the sword. And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. And when he had apprehended him,... | |
 | James Moffatt - 1913 - 252 pages
...heaven's gate Open for thee ; or both may come too late." — HERBERT. ACTS xn. 1, 23. Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. . . . And he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. " To-day Stern is the tyrant's mandate, red the gaze That... | |
 | 1914 - 722 pages
...window. The story is taken from the Acts of the Apostles. Herod the king, as the narrative says, " stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church....the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also." The story of the imprisonment and liberation of Peter now... | |
 | 1854 - 464 pages
...glorify Me. — PSALM 1. 15. ACTS xii. 1—9. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth Ins hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed...the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had... | |
 | Edward Augustus George - 1916 - 256 pages
...have seen with the others, but glorified in a martyr's death. " Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church....killed James, the brother of John, with the sword." 2 James was the first apostle to be martyred, the first of the Twelve to die for his Lord. So did he... | |
 | Frances May Dadmun - 1916 - 274 pages
...How Peter was Set Free Now about that time, Herod the king began to persecute the followers of Jesus. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. It was during the week of the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Jerome - 1917 - 254 pages
...disciples of Jesus to suffer death was James, the brother of John. "Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church....killed James the brother of John with the sword." (Acts xii. 1,2.) The persecution of the disciples and of the early Christians as detailed in the book... | |
 | Sister Mary Domitilla - 1917 - 396 pages
...the hands of Barnabas and Saul. At the same time, Herod stretched forth his hands, to afflict some of the Church. And he killed James, the brother of John, with a sword. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter also. When Herod apprehended... | |
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Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 
