- Peter's Miraculous Escape From Prison
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- It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church,
- intending to persecute them.
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- He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
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- When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also.
- This happened during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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- 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.
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- So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 sent his angel and rescued me from Herod's clutches
- and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating."
- 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.
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- Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named
- Rhoda came to answer the door.
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- 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."
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- But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door
- and saw him, they were astonished.
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- Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and
- described how the Lord had brought him out of prison.
- "Tell James and the brothers about this," he said,
- and then he left for another place.
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- In the morning, there was no small commotion
- among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.
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- After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him,
- he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed.
- Herod's Death
- Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there a while.
- 20
- He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon;
- they now joined together and sought an audience with him.
- Having secured the support of Blastus,
- a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace,
- because they depended on the king's country for their food supply.
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- On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes,
- sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people.
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- They shouted, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man."
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- Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God,
- an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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- But the word of God continued to increase and spread.
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- When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission,
- they returned from Jerusalem, taking with them John, also called Mark.
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