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When he had captured him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
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Commentators explain that the 'four quaternions of soldiers' refers to a total of sixteen soldiers assigned to guard Peter in rotating shifts of four. This extreme level of security, with Peter chained to two guards inside a locked cell, was likely because Herod Agrippa remembered the apostles' previous miraculous escape from prison and wanted to ensure Peter would face a public trial.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And when he had apprehended him. When he had taken or arrested him.
He put him in prison. During the solemn obser…
When he had taken him (πιασας). See on 3:7 for same form.
He put him in prison (εθετο εις φυλακην). Second…
19th Century
Anglican
Delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers.—Agrippa apparently followed the lessons of Roman practice which he had lea…
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The narrative of Peter’s miraculous deliverance from prison and death really begins at v.5. The narrative is introduced as having taken place “abou…
16th Century
Protestant
Adding four quaternions of soldiers. Luke, in this passage, makes it evident through the circumstances that Peter was, as it were, shut up…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When he had apprehended him When his officers he sent to take him had brought him:
he put him in …
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