Acts 12:20-25 - Herod's Gruesome Death
20 Herod was then making warlike preparations against the Tyrians, and Sidonians: but they unanimously sent a deputation to court: where having gain'd Blastus the king's chamberlain, they brought matters to an accommodation: for their country was subsisted by the king's territorys. 21 one court-day, Herod array'd in his robes of state, and seated upon the throne, made a publick oration: 22 at which the people gave a shout, saying, it is the voice of a God, and not of a man. 23 but at the instant an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not glorify God: so that he became a prey to worms and died. In the mean time, the 24 word of God made continual progress. and after Barnabas 25 and Saul had executed their commission, they return'd to Jerusalem, and took with them John who was surnam'd Mark.