Acts 12:20
And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country.
KJV
ἦν δὲ θυμομαχῶν Τυρίοις καὶ Σιδωνίοις· ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ παρῆσαν πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ πείσαντες Βλάστον τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ κοιτῶνος τοῦ βασιλέως ᾐτοῦντο εἰρήνην, διὰ τὸ τρέφεσθαι αὐτῶν τὴν χώραν ἀπὸ τῆς βασιλικῆς.
Greek NT
Erat autem iratus Tyriis et Sidoniis. At illi unanimes venerunt ad eum, et persuaso Blasto, qui erat super cubiculum regis, postulabant pacem, eo quod alerentur regiones eorum ab illo.
Vulgate
Now he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was fed from the king’s country.
ASV
And he was angry with the Tyrians and the Sidonians. But they with one accord came to him: and, having gained Blastus who was the king's chamberlain, they desired peace, because their countries were nourished by him.
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In the original Greek
23 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- δὲ — SBLGNT
- δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ὁ Ἡρῴδης — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Covers the assassination of the emperor Caligula and the accession of Claudius. Josephus describes Agrippa I's role in Claudius's accession — the same Herod Agrippa who persecuted the early church and killed James the apostle (Acts 12). Also provides context for the expulsion of Jews from Rome mentioned in Acts 18:2.
Covers the procurators from Fadus through Albinus. The critical passage is Ant. 20.9.1, where Josephus records the execution of "James, the brother of Jesus who was called Christ" by the high priest Ananus in AD 62. This is the second independent Josephan reference to Jesus, and unlike the Testimonium, its authenticity is virtually undisputed by scholars. Also covers the famine…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 5:9 — My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou sha
- Acts 21:3 — Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
- Ezek 27:17 — Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
- Ezra 3:7 — They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to
- Ezra 3:7 — They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to
- Luke 14:31 — Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
- Luke 14:32 — Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
- Luke 16:8 — And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
- Matt 11:21 — Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Matt 11:21 — Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.