other · 44 · Caesarea Maritima
Tyre and Sidon had fallen out with him and came asking for peace, their food coming from his country; they got Blastus, the king's chamberlain, on their side first. On the appointed day Agrippa put on his royal robes, took his seat on the throne and delivered an oration, and the people shouted that it was the voice of a god and not of a man. Immediately, Luke writes, an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. Josephus tells the same death in Antiquities 19.8.2: the second day of the games at Caesarea, a robe woven entirely of silver catching the early sun, flatterers calling him a god, and five days of pain in the belly before he died. The two accounts agree on the city, the acclamation, the manner and the year, and Luke sets it at the end of the chapter that opened with the sword.
The third part of Acts 12, and the end of the reign that killed James and gaoled Peter.