Acts 12:1

1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

Ver. 1. Now about that time ] That the famine lay sore upon the Church. Afflictions seldom come single. The saints usually fall into various temptations at once, James 1:2 . Fluctus fluctum trudit. Job’s messengers tread one upon the heels of another.

Herod the king ] Nephew to Herod the Great, brother to Herodias, and father to that Agrippa, Acts 25:13 .