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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 12:20 - 12:20
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Act 12:20-25. Herod’s miserable end - Growing success of the gospel - Barnabas and Saul return to Antioch.
Herod was ... displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon - for some reason unknown; but the effect on their commercial relations made the latter glad to sue for peace.
their country was nourished by the king’s country - See 1Ki 5:11; Ezr 3:7; Eze 27:17. Perhaps the famine (Act 11:28) made them the more urgent for reconciliation.