John Gill's Exposition on Acts 12:19

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when Herod had sought for him and found him not, etc.] Neither in the prison, nor in any part of the city: he examined the keepers; of the prison, and those that were upon the watch, whether they had not been accessary to his escape: and commanded that they should be put to death: or brought forth, not before a judge to be tried and judged, because they had been examined by Herod already; but either that they should be carried and laid in bonds, or be led forth to suffer punishment; and so our version directs, and which is confirmed by the Syriac; and the Greeks say f589, that apagwgh is a kind of punishment: and he went down from Judea to Caesarea; not Peter, but Herod: and there abode; of this journey of Agrippa’s to Caesarea, Josephus makes mention f590; this place was distant from Jerusalem six hundred furlongs, or seventy five miles f591.

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