Acts 12:2

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He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

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The Roman Empire of the New TestamentThe Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, the political world of the New Testament.

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Jerusalem, in Judea, was the center of Jewish worship and the place where Herod Agrippa I executed James, intensifying persecution of the church. Caesarea,

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Acts 12:2 mentions Caesarea, Jerusalem, Judea, Sidon and Tyre.

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Photo of Tyre — Tyre · Vyacheslav Argenberg