Acts 12:1-5 ▼

1 About that time King Herod violently attacked some who belonged to the church,

2 and he executed James, John’s brother, with the sword.

3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

4 After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.