Acts 12:3-16

3 When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.
7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.
9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.
10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”
12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.
13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.
14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”
15 “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.

Cross References 16

  • 1. Acts 24:27; Acts 25:9
  • 2. Exodus 12:15; Exodus 23:15; Acts 20:6
  • 3. S John 11:55
  • 4. S Acts 1:14; Romans 15:30,31; Ephesians 6:18
  • 5. Acts 21:33
  • 6. S Acts 5:19
  • 7. Psalms 107:14; Acts 16:26
  • 8. S Acts 9:10
  • 9. Acts 5:19; Acts 16:26
  • 10. Luke 15:17
  • 11. Psalms 34:7; Daniel 3:28; Daniel 6:22; 2 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Peter 2:9
  • 12. ver 25; Acts 13:5,13; Acts 15:37,39; Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:11; Philemon 24; 1 Peter 5:13
  • 13. ver 5
  • 14. John 18:16,17
  • 15. Luke 24:41
  • 16. S Matthew 18:10
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