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Herod planned to put him on trial in public after Passover. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/acts/12-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/acts/12-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/acts/12-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/acts/1.htm">Acts</a> > <a href="/gntd/acts/12.htm">Chapter 12</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/12-3.htm" title="Acts 12:3">◄</a> Acts 12:4 <a href="../acts/12-5.htm" title="Acts 12:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/acts/12.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/acts/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />After his arrest Peter was put in jail, where he was handed over to be guarded by four groups of four soldiers each. Herod planned to put him on trial in public after Passover. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/acts/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When he had seized him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/acts/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />He put Peter in jail and ordered four squads of soldiers to guard him. Herod planned to put him on trial in public after the festival. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/acts/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He had him taken into custody and put in prison under the guard of four squads of four soldiers each. He intended to bring him before the people after Passover.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/acts/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.</p><p class="hdg">he put.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/4-3.htm">Acts 4:3</a> And they laid hands upon them and put them in hold till the next day: for it was now evening.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/5-18.htm">Acts 5:18</a> And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/8-3.htm">Acts 8:3</a> But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to house: and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/24-9.htm">Matthew 24:9</a> Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/21-12.htm">Luke 21:12</a> But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/22-33.htm">Luke 22:33</a> Who said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison and to death.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/13-36.htm">John 13:36-38</a> Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now: but thou shalt follow hereafter. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/21-18.htm">John 21:18</a> Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst gird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and lead thee whither thou wouldst not.</p><p class="hdg">delivered.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/16-23.htm">Acts 16:23,24</a> And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/27-64.htm">Matthew 27:64-66</a> Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse than the first. . . . </p><p class="hdg">intending.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/4-28.htm">Acts 4:28</a> To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../esther/3-6.htm">Esther 3:6,7,13</a> And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/19-21.htm">Proverbs 19:21</a> There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/27-1.htm">Proverbs 27:1</a> Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../lamentations/3-37.htm">Lamentations 3:37</a> Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/26-5.htm">Matthew 26:5</a> But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people.</p><p class="hdg">Easter.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/acts/12.htm">James Killed, Peter Imprisoned</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.</span> <span class="reftext">5</span>Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/12-1.htm">Exodus 12:1</a></span><br />And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/14-1.htm">Mark 14:1</a></span><br />Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/19-23.htm">John 19:23</a></span><br />The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his garments, (and they made four parts, to every soldier a part) and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/12-3.htm">Acts 12:3</a></span><br />And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/12-5.htm">Acts 12:5</a></span><br />Peter therefore was kept in prison. 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