The Acts of the Emissaries, Chapter 12
{12:1} Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to
oppress some of the assembly. {12:2} He killed Jacob, the brother of
Yochanan, with the sword. {12:3} When he saw that it pleased the
Judeans, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of
unleavened bread. {12:4} When he had arrested him, he put him in
prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to
guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the
Passover. {12:5} Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant
prayer was made by the assembly to God for him. {12:6} The same night
when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two
soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the
prison.
{12:7} And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light
shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up,
saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands. {12:8}
The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did
so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me." {12:9} And he
went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was being done by
the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. {12:10} When they
were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate
that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went
out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from
him.
{12:11} When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know
that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand
of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."
{12:12} Thinking about that, he came to the house of Miriam, the
mother of Yochanan whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered
together and were praying. {12:13} When Peter knocked at the door of
the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer. {12:14} When she
recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran
in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
{12:15} They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it
was so. They said, "It is his angel." {12:16} But Peter continued
knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed. {12:17}
But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them
how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these
things to Jacob, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to
another place.
{12:18} Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers about what had become of Peter. {12:19} When Herod had sought
for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded
that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea,
and stayed there. {12:20} Now Herod was very angry with the people of
Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made
Blastus, the king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace,
because their country depended on the king's country for food. {12:21}
On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on
the throne, and gave a speech to them. {12:22} The people shouted,
"The voice of a god, and not of a man!" {12:23} Immediately an angel
of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he
was eaten by worms and died.
{12:24} But the word of God grew and multiplied. {12:25} Barnabas
and Saul returned [1>]to[<1] Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their
service, also taking with them Yochanan whose surname was Mark.
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Footnotes:
[1] {12:25} TR reads "from" instead of "to"
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