Herod is looking to kill Peter who had escaped prison. The people want to appease Herod so he will share food during the famine. They praise him as a god and he dies suddenly.

Another suddenly stricken story, in chapter 13, Saul is sent to Cyprus where the leader there is sympathetic to the Gospel. Magician tries to block the way, and Saul/Paul curses (?) him to be blind. Reminiscent of Paul’s own conversion