Matthew Poole Commentary - Acts 12:17 - 12:17

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Acts 12:17 - 12:17


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Beckoning; it was usual by the motion of the hand both to desire silence and to crave audience.



How the Lord had brought him out; Peter gives God the glory, though an angel had been the means of his delivery.



James; this James was the son of Alpheus, Mat_10:3 Mar_3:18, and succeeded the other James, (the brother of John, of whom, Act_12:2), in governing the church at Jerusalem.



Went into another place; Peter could not but know he should be sought after, and therefore durst not abide in one place, lest he should ruin himself, and endanger his friends that should harbour him. Thus the great apostle, as David formerly, was hunted, as one hunteth a partridge in the mountains, 1Sa_26:20.