Person
Herod
Agrippa I, king of Judea
Grandson of Herod the Great; kills James, imprisons Peter, and dies struck by an angel (Acts 12).
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Herod Agrippa I is a grandson of who rules as king in the early years of the church. He kills the brother of John with the sword and, seeing that it pleases the Jewish leaders, arrests , who is freed from prison by an angel. Later, while receiving the acclamation of the and at as though he were a god, he is struck down by an angel of the Lord and dies eaten by worms.
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