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Acts 12:17-19
New Catholic Bible
Acts 12:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 He motioned to them with his hand to be silent. After he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison, he said, “Report this to James[a] and the brethren.” Then he left and went to another place.
18 At daybreak, there was a great deal of commotion among the soldiers about what had become of Peter. 19 After instituting a search for him and being unable to find him, Herod interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then he left Judea to reside for a while in Caesarea.
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- Acts 12:17 James: this is James the Lesser, a brother of the Lord, i.e., one of Jesus’ collateral relatives; we will find him presiding over the Church of Jerusalem (Acts 15; 17). Peter is said, in words surely carefully weighed, to have gone “to another place”; Acts will not speak of him again.
