Robertson Word Pictures - Acts 12:5 - 12:5

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Robertson Word Pictures - Acts 12:5 - 12:5


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Therefore (men oun). Because of the preceding situation.

Was kept (etēreito). Imperfect passive, continuously guarded, waiting for the feast to be over.

But prayer was made earnestly (proseuchē de ēn ektenōs ginomenē). Probably de here is not adversative (but), merely parallel (and) as Page argues. It was a crisis for the Jerusalem church. James had been slain and Peter was to be the next victim. Hence “earnestly” (late adverb from ektenēs, strained, from ekteinō, to stretch. In the N.T. only here, Luk 22:44; 1Pe 1:22) prayer was going up (ginomenē, present middle participle, periphrastic imperfect with ēn). It looked like a desperate case for Peter. Hence the disciples prayed the more earnestly.