Acts 12:19 (WEB)
When Herod had sought for him and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Fathers and councils · 2
Eusebius of Caesarea
“The consequences of the king’s undertaking against the apostles were not long deferred, but the avenging minister of divine justice overtook him immediately after his plots against them, as the Book of Acts records.” — editor's note: See Acts xii. 19 sqq.
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John Chrysostom
“Plainly, then, if this be their charge, that the children were left to be slain, they should find fault likewise with the slaughter of the soldiers that kept Peter.” — editor's note: Acts xii. 19.
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