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1IT was about this time that King Herod launched an attack on certain members of the church.

2He beheaded James, the brother of John,

3and, when he saw that the Jews approved, proceeded to arrest Peter also. This happened during the festival of Unleavened Bread.

4Having secured him, he put him in prison under a military guard, four squads of four men each, meaning to produce him in public after Passover.

5So, while Peter was held in prison, the church kept praying fervently to God for him.

6On the very night before Herod had planned to produce him, Peter was asleep between two soldiers, secured by two chains, while outside the doors sentries kept guard over the prison.

7All at once an angel of the Lord stood there, and the cell was ablaze with light. He tapped Peter on the shoulder to wake him. “Quick! Get up!” he said, and the chains fell away from Peter's wrists.

8The angel said, “Do up your belt and put on your sandals.” He did so. “Now wrap your cloak round you and follow me.”

9Peter followed him out, with no idea that the angel's intervention was real: he thought it was just a vision.

10They passed the first guard-post, then the second, and reached the iron gate leading out into the city. This opened for them of its own accord; they came out and had walked the length of one street when suddenly the angel left him.

11Then Peter came to himself. “Now I know it is true,” he said: “the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod's clutches and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”

12Once he had realized this, he made for the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where a large company was at prayer.

13He knocked at the outer door and a maidservant called Rhoda came to answer it.

14She recognized Peter's voice and was so overjoyed that instead of opening the door she ran in and announced that Peter was standing outside.

15“You are crazy,” they told her; but she insisted that it was so. Then they said, “It must be his angel.”

16Peter went on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

17He motioned to them with his hand to keep quiet, and described to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell James and the members of the church,” he said. Then he left the house and went off elsewhere.

18When morning came, there was consternation among the soldiers: what could have become of Peter?

19Herod made careful search, but failed to find him, so he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Afterwards Herod left Judaea to reside for a while at Caesarea.

20He had for some time been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, who now by common agreement presented themselves at his court. There they won over Blastus the royal chamberlain, and sued for peace, because their country drew its supplies from the king's territory.

21On an appointed day Herod, attired in his royal robes and seated on the rostrum, addressed the populace;

22they responded, “It is a god speaking, not a man!”

23Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he had usurped the honour due to God; he was eaten up with worms and so died.

24Meanwhile the word of God continued to grow and spread;

25and Barnabas and Saul, their task fulfilled, returned from Jerusalem, taking John Mark with them.



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