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So Herod chose not to bring Peter out

publicly and kill him during the time of this

holy week, which was very wise. And let me

tell you this too. It would have been very

foolish for Herod the man to have been

waiting for a pagan festival of a pagan god

in Jerusalem and not reverence the

Passover. In Jerusalem, now, where there

are Jews, it would have been very foolish for

him to be concerned and waiting for some

pagan holiday to come about. That, again,

would have been political suicide as far as

his administration was concerned because

he knew how the Jews felt even against

Jesus Christ.

So Acts 12:4 doesn't say that Herod was
waiting to worship a spring goddess, and

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