Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 12]
aorist middle participle of \ginomai\ with \en\ and the locative
case, "becoming at himself." In Lu 15:17 we have \eis heauton
elth•n\ (coming to himself, as if he had been on a trip away from
himself). {Now I know of a truth} (\nun oida al•th•s\). There was
no further confusion of mind that it was an ecstasy as in
10:10. But he was in peril for the soldiers would soon learn of
his escape, when the change of guards came at 6 A.M. {Delivered
me} (\exeilato me\). Second aorist middle indicative of
\exaire•\. The Lord rescued me of himself by his angel.
{Expectation} (\prosdokias\). Old word from \prosdoka•\, to look
for. In the N.T. only here and Lu 21:26. James had been put to
death and the Jewish people were eagerly waiting for the
execution of Peter like hungry wolves.
12:12 {When he had considered} (\sunid•n\). Second aorist active
participle of \suneidon\ (for the defective verb \sunora•\), to
see together, to grasp as a whole, old verb, but in the N.T. only
here and 14:6, save the perfect indicative \sunoida\ (1Co
4:4) and participle (Ac 5:2). It is the word from which
\suneid•sis\ (conscience) comes (Ro 2:15). Peter's mind worked
rapidly and he decided what to do. He took in his situation
clearly. {To the house of Mary} (\epi t•n oikian t•s Marias\).
Another Mary (the others were Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary of
Bethany, Mary Magdalene, Mary wife of Cleopas, Mary the mother of
James and Joses). She may have been a widow and was possessed of
some means since her house was large enough to hold the large
group of disciples there. Barnabas, cousin of John Mark her son
(Col 4:10), was also a man of property or had been (Ac
4:36f.). It is probable that the disciples had been in the habit
of meeting in her house, a fact known to Peter and he was
evidently fond of John Mark whom he afterwards calls "my son"
(1Pe 5:13) and whom he had met here. The upper room of Ac
1:13 may have been in Mary's house and Mark may have been the
man bearing a pitcher of water (Lu 22:10) and the young man who
fled in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mr 14:51f.). There was a gate
and portress here as in the house of the highpriest (Joh
18:16). Peter knew where to go and even at this early hour hoped
to find some of the disciples. Mary is one of the many mothers
who have become famous by reason of their sons, though she was
undoubtedly a woman of high character herself. {Were gathered
together and were praying} (\•san sun•throismenoi kai
proseuchomenoi\). Note difference in the tenses, one periphrastic
past perfect passive (\sunathroiz•\ old verb, in the N.T. here
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