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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 12:3

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Acts 12:3 (WEB)

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

Fathers and councils · 3

Catena Aurea on Matthew

Eusebius of Caesarea

  • “And then, as the divine Scripture says, Herod, upon the death of James, seeing that the deed pleased the Jews, attacked Peter also and committed him to prison, and would have slain him if he had not,…” — editor's note: Acts xii. 3sqq.

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  • “For immediately, during the reign of Claudius, the all-good and gracious Providence, which watches over all things, led Peter, that strongest and greatest of the apostles, and the one who on account of his virtue was the speaker for all the others, to Rome against this great corrupter of life.” — editor's note: Upon the historic truth of Peter’s visit to Rome, see below, chap. 25, note 7. Although we may accept it as certain that he did visit Rome, and that he met his…

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  • Cited together in Church History II.14.

  • Cited together in Church History II.14.

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 26:1–2 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 26:1–2 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Church History II.14.

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