Acts 12:1-4
James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned
12:1 About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.
12:2 He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.
12:3 When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too. (This took place during the feast of Unleavened Bread.)
12:4 When he had seized him, he put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him. Herod planned to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
Acts 12:23-24
12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord
struck
Herod
down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
12:24 But the word of God
kept on increasing
and multiplying.