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Acts 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the death of the first apostle, James, son of Zebedee , followed by the miraculous escape of Peter from prison , the death of Herod Agrippa I , and the early ministry of Barnabas and Paul of Tarsus .
Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (or TNTC) is a series of commentaries in English on the New Testament. It is published by the Inter-Varsity Press . Constantly being revised since its completion, the series seeks to bridge the gap between brevity and scholarly comment.
Rhoda (whose name means "rose" [1]) was a girl (Biblical Greek: παιδίσκη) living in the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark. Many biblical translations state that she was a 'maid' or 'servant girl'. After Peter was miraculously released from prison, he went to the house and knocked on the door.
Mitzi J. Smith is an American biblical scholar who is J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.She is the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in New Testament from Harvard University. [1]
John Trapp. John Trapp (5 June 1601, in Croome D'Abitot – 16 October 1669, in Weston-on-Avon), was an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and is known for its pithy statements and quotable prose; his volumes are quoted frequently by other religious writers.
According to Acts 12:20, Herod was displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon, [2] and forbade the export of food to them. As they were dependent on delivery of food from Judea, and Judea was affected by famine, [3] the Sidonians and Tyrians made Blastus "their friend" (possibly through bribery [4]). Blastus helped them obtain an audience ...
Taub's most recent book was “Big Dirty Money” published in 2020 by Viking Press. Her first book was Other People's Houses, published in 2014 by the Yale Press. [7] In 2017 Taub released a 6th edition of the casebook, and in 2021 a 7th edition of Corporate and White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials (Wolters Kluwer) originally written by Kathleen Brickey.
The prophecy in Isaiah 6:9–10 was cited (verses 26–27) to reflect Jewish rejection of Jesus as a tragic failure of 'this people' to 'take advantage of the proffered 'salvation' (verse 28: picking up earlier allusions to Isaiah in Acts 26:12—23), and related to Simeon's prophecy in Luke 2:30 (cf. Luke's citation in the parable of the sower ...