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Acts 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the death of the first apostle, James, son of Zebedee , followed by the miraculous escape of Peter from prison , the death of Herod Agrippa I , and the early ministry of Barnabas and Paul of Tarsus .
Acts 12:3–19 says that Peter was put into prison by King Herod, but the night before his trial an angel appeared to him, and told him to leave. Peter's chains fell off, and he followed the angel out of prison, thinking it was a vision (verse 9). The prison doors opened of their own accord, and the angel led Peter into the city.
Piper was born on January 11, 1946, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Bill and Ruth Piper. [12] His father was a traveling evangelist for over 60 years. [13] Before Piper was one year old, his family moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where he spent the remainder of his youth, graduating from Wade Hampton High School in 1964.
According to Acts 12:20, Herod was displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon, [2] and forbade the export of food to them. As they were dependent on delivery of food from Judea, and Judea was affected by famine, [3] the Sidonians and Tyrians made Blastus "their friend" (possibly through bribery [4]). Blastus helped them obtain an audience ...
From this perspective, God alone possesses free-will in the sense of ultimate self-determination. [30] Moreover, God acts through voluntarism in its nominalist sense. [31] This means, what God does is good not because it is guided by his character or moral structure within his nature, but only because God wants it. [32]
Christ's active obedience (doing what God's law required) is usually distinguished from his passive obedience (suffering for his people), but J. Gresham Machen argues, "Every event of his life was a part of his payment for the penalty of sins, and every event of his life was a part of that glorious keeping of the law of God by which he earned ...
Texas is looking at a plan to ramp up migrant buses again — but instead of sending them to sanctuary cities, officials would ship newly arrived illegal migrants directly to ICE holding centers ...
The first baptisms in early Christianity are recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. Acts 2 records the Apostle Peter , on the day of Pentecost , preaching to the crowds to "repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission (or forgiveness) of sins" ( Acts 2:38 ).