These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Acts 12
Brit Hadashah 25 verses
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Now, about that time, King Herod arrested certain members of the Church, in order to ill-treat them;
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and , John’s brother, he beheaded.
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- 3 Finding that this gratified the Jews, he proceeded to seize also; these being the days of Unleavened Bread.
- 4 He had him arrested and lodged in jail, handing him over to the care of sixteen soldiers; and intended after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.
- 5 So was kept in prison; but long and fervent prayer was offered to by the Church on his behalf.
- 6 Now when Herod was on the point of taking him out of prison, that very night was asleep between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards were on duty outside the door.
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Suddenly an of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell; and, striking on the side, he woke him and said, “Rise quickly.” Instantly the chains dropped off his wrists.
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Acts 16:26 Acts 5:19 1 Kings 19:7 Hebrews 1:14 Acts 27:23-24 2 Samuel 22:29 Daniel 6:22 Psalm 146:7 Revelation 18:1 Acts 12:23 Isaiah 60:1 Genesis 19:15-16 Luke 2:9 Daniel 3:24-25 Psalm 116:16 Psalm 142:6-7 Acts 12:6 Psalm 37:32-33 Psalm 105:18-20 Micah 7:9 Ezekiel 43:2 Ephesians 5:14 1 Kings 19:5 Acts 10:30 Habakkuk 3:4 Psalm 34:7 Acts 2:24 Isaiah 37:30 Acts 9:3 Habakkuk 3:11 Luke 24:4 Psalm 107:14 - 8 “Fasten your girdle,” said the , “and tie on your sandals.” He did so. Then the said, “Throw your cloak round you, and follow me.”
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So went out, following him, yet could not believe that what the was doing was real, but supposed that he saw a vision.
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And passing through the first ward and the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. This opened to them of itself; and, going out, they passed on through one of the streets, and then suddenly the left him.
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coming to himself said, “Now I for certain that the Lord has sent His and has rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating.”
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Luke 15:17 Daniel 6:22 Daniel 3:28 Psalm 34:7 Psalm 33:18 2 Peter 2:9 Acts 23:12-30 Job 5:19 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 Psalm 109:31 Daniel 3:25 Acts 5:19 Acts 25:9 Psalm 41:2 Acts 24:27 2 Samuel 22:1 Psalm 34:22 Genesis 26:9 Job 31:31 Genesis 15:13 Genesis 18:13 Acts 25:3-5 Psalm 97:10 Hebrews 1:14 2 Chronicles 16:9 Acts 12:7 - 12 So, after thinking things over, he went to the house of , the mother of surnamed Mark, where a large number of people were assembled, praying.
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When he knocked at the wicket in the door, a maidservant named Rhoda came to answer the knock;
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and recognizing Peter’s voice, for very joy she did not open the door, but ran in and told them that was standing there.
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“You are mad,” they said. But she strenuously maintained that it was true. “It is his guardian ,” they said.
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- 16 Meanwhile went on knocking, until at last they opened the door and saw that it was really he, and were filled with amazement.
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But he motioned with his hand for silence, and then described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Tell all this to and the brethren,” he added. Then he left them, and went to another place.
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When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers, as to what could possibly have become of .
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- 19 And when Herod had had him searched for and could not find him, after sharply questioning the guards he ordered them away to execution. He then went down from Judaea to Caesarea and remained there.
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Now the people of and had incurred Herod’s violent displeasure. So they sent a large deputation to wait on him; and having secured the good will of Blastus, his treasurer, they begged the to be friendly with them again, because their country was dependent on his for its food supply.
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- 21 So, on an appointed day, Herod, having arrayed himself in royal robes, took his seat on the tribunal, and was haranguing them;
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and the assembled people kept shouting, “It is the voice of a , and not of a man!”
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Instantly an of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the to , and being eaten up by worms, he died.
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1 Samuel 25:38 2 Samuel 24:16-17 Psalm 115:1 1 Chronicles 21:14-18 Job 19:26 Isaiah 37:23 Job 7:5 Daniel 4:30-37 Isaiah 66:24 Exodus 9:17 2 Chronicles 32:21 Exodus 12:29 Daniel 5:18-24 Exodus 10:3 Isaiah 51:8 Ezekiel 28:2 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Acts 14:14-15 Exodus 12:12 Acts 10:25-26 Luke 12:47-48 2 Chronicles 21:18-19 Isaiah 14:11 Exodus 12:23 Mark 9:43-48 2 Kings 19:35 Ezekiel 28:9 - 24 But Elohim’s Message prospered, and converts were multiplied.
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And Barnabas and returned from , having discharged their mission, and they brought with them , surnamed Mark.
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