“Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.”
It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.—'King Herod' is Herod Agrippa I (10 BC – AD 44), grandson of Herod the Great, who ruled Judea AD 41-44. The arrest is motivated by political calculation: Jewish popularity. 'Some who belonged to the church' (tines tōn apo tēs ekklēsias) marks the beginning of a new persecution wave, this time by political (not merely mob) authority.
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