 | Episcopal Church - 1835 - 406 pages
...sent it to the elders by the ands of Barnabas and SauL Now bout that time, Herod the king tretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church. And he killed ames the brother of John with the word. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded furher... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1836 - 448 pages
...The implacable hatred of the Jews remained undiminished. Some few years afterwards, " Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church...the sword. And, because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded farther to take Peter also."' The virulence with which St. Paul was constantly opposed,... | |
 | First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1836 - 68 pages
...as should be saved. Acts 2. 47. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts 8. 3. Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church....killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. Acts 12. 1. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. Acts 15. 41. He that hath... | |
 | Edward Crook - 1836 - 282 pages
...king took upon him too much, for he stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church of God, and he killed James the brother of John with the sword, and he persecuted the people of God. (Acts xii.) And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel set... | |
 | Edward Cardwell - 1837 - 612 pages
...by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. dch' "' 's' 12 NOW about that time Herod the king 2 stretched 2 forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James athe brother of John with the sword. aMatt.4.«. 3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded... | |
 | John Foxe - 1837 - 750 pages
...ingliam, and, as it is written in Acts xii., that wicked Herod did vex certain of the congregation, and killed James the brother of John with the sword ; and because he saw that it pleased the Jews, &c., he proceeded further, and had this same Thomas Chase before him, asking... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...family, of whom St. Luke has given us a very remarkable history. " Now about that time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to vex certain of the church....the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded farther to take Peter also. Then were the days of unleavened bread." Acts xii. 1 — 3.... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pages
...bestowed from above. And when the perils For the Epistle. Acts xii. 1. BOUT that time Herod the king 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. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had... | |
 | Bernhard Jacobi - 1838 - 252 pages
...the first persecution of the christians at Jerusalem. " Herod the king" (we are told in Acts xii. 1) "stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church....killed James the brother of John with the sword." But the other James, the son of Alpheus, who is sometimes called the brother, that is, the half-brother... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...time Herod the king stretched forth hi» hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James^ tht brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews J, he proceeded further to take Peter ab;1 (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he hat... | |
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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. 
