Acts 5:5

5:5 When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped ¹  all who heard about it.

Acts 12:23

12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord ²  struck ³  Herod ⁴  down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died. ⁵ 

Acts 5:10

5:10 At once ⁶  she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

[5:5]  ¹ tn Or “fear came on,” “fear seized”; Grk “fear happened to.”

[12:23]  ² tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 5:19.

[12:23]  ³ sn On being struck…down by an angel, see Acts 23:3; 1 Sam 25:28; 2 Sam 12:15; 2 Kgs 19:35; 2 Chr 13:20; 2 Macc 9:5.

[12:23]  ⁴ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:23]  ⁵ sn He was eaten by worms and died. Josephus, Ant. 19.8.2 (19.343-352), states that Herod Agrippa I died at Caesarea in a.d. 44. The account by Josephus, while not identical to Luke’s account, is similar in many respects: On the second day of a festival, Herod Agrippa appeared in the theater with a robe made of silver. When it sparkled in the sun, the people cried out flatteries and declared him to be a god. The king, carried away by the flattery, saw an owl (an omen of death) sitting on a nearby rope, and immediately was struck with severe stomach pains. He was carried off to his house and died five days later. The two accounts can be reconciled without difficulty, since while Luke states that Herod was immediately struck down by an angel, his death could have come several days later. The mention of worms with death adds a humiliating note to the scene. The formerly powerful ruler had been thoroughly reduced to nothing (cf. Jdt 16:17; 2 Macc 9:9; cf. also Josephus, Ant. 17.6.5 [17.168-170], which details the sickness which led to Herod the Great’s death).

[5:10]  ³ tn Grk “And at once.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.