Acts 5:18

5:18 They 1  laid hands on 2  the apostles and put them in a public jail.

Acts 12:1

James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12:1 About that time King Herod 3  laid hands on 4  some from the church to harm them. 5 

1 tn Grk “jealousy, and they.” In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but a new sentence has been started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

2 tn Or “they arrested.”

3 sn King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, Ant. 18-19. This event took place in a.d. 42 or 43.

4 tn Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”

5 tn Or “to cause them injury.”