Act 12:4 | HCSB | STEP | After the arrest , he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him , intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover .

‏ Acts 12:4

4 After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the ^{▼▼Passover: The Israelite festival celebrated on the fourteenth day of the first month in the early spring. It was a celebration of the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, commemorating the final plague on Egypt when the firstborn were killed.}Passover.