Scrolls & Secrets
Why Herod Agrippa Executed James But Couldn't Stop Peter
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A king executes an apostle in a single sword stroke, then watches his iron chains fall off the next prisoner — and dies rotting in public weeks later. Acts 12 is one of the most politically charged chapters in the entire New Testament. Herod Agrippa I — the most powerful Jewish client king since Roman annexation — wasn't acting out of religious conviction when he killed James and arrested Peter.…