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16 Now Peter continued knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.
17 But amotioning to them with his hand to keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Go, tell these things to James and to the brethren.” And he departed and went to another place.  
18 Then, as soon as it was day, there was no small1 stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.  
19 But when Herod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

Herod’s Violent Death

20 Now Herod had been very angry with the people of aTyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because btheir country was supplied with food by the king’s country.  
21 So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them.
22 And the people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”
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Acts 12:18

As soon as it was day (Genomenhv hmerav). Genitive absolute, day having come.

No small stir (taraxov ouk oligov). Litotes (ouk oligov), occurs eight times in the Acts as in Acts 15:2, and nowhere else in the N.T. Taraxov (stir) is an old word from tarassw, to agitate. In the N.T only here and Acts 19:23. Probably all sixteen soldiers were agitated over this remarkable escape. They were responsible for the prisoner with their lives (cf. Acts 16:27; Acts 27:42). Furneaux suggests that Manaen, the king's foster-brother and a Christian (Acts 13:1), was the "angel" who rescued Peter from the prison. That is not the way that Peter looked at it.

What was become of Peter (ti ara o Petrov egeneto). An indirect question with the aorist indicative retained. Ara adds a syllogism (therefore) to the problem as in Luke 1:66. The use of the neuter ti (as in Acts 13:25) is different from tiv, though nominative like Petrov, literally, "what then Peter had become," "what had happened to Peter" (in one idiom). See the same idiom in John 21:21 (outov de ti).

But this one what (verb genhsetai not used).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 12:18:

Luke 1:66
Acts 19:23

 

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