Acts 12:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

He put

Delivered

Acts 16:23

Matthew 27:64

Intending

General references

Leviticus 23:6

Numbers 28:16

Bible References

He put

So they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening.

So they arrested the apostles and put them in the city jail.

Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you. They will hand you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of My name.

“Lord,” he told Him, “I’m ready to go with You both to prison and to death!”

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to Him, “where are You going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

“I assure you: When you were young, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

Delivered

After they had inflicted many blows on them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to keep them securely guarded.

Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come, steal Him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ Then the last deception will be worse than the first.”

Intending

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
but the Lord’s decree will prevail.

Don’t boast about tomorrow,
for you don’t know what a day might bring.

מ MemWho is there who speaks and it happens,
unless the Lord has ordained it?

“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”

General references

The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

“The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month.