Herod Agrippa kills James; an angel frees Peter
King Herod Agrippa I had James, the brother of John, killed with the sword. Seeing that it pleased the Jews, he arrested Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, but the night before his trial an angel led Peter out of prison.
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
Acts 12:5 (World English Bible)
Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. The church was praying for him at the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, and when he knocked at the gate, the servant girl Rhoda was so overjoyed that she forgot to open it. James was the first of the Twelve to die for Christ.
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Dating notes
Ussher: the Passover season of AD 44, the year Agrippa died.