IT'S NOT A VISION IT'S REAL
THE POWER OF PRAYER!
Peter is arrested and freed by an angel
12 About that time King Herod took action against some of the church. 2 And he slew James the brother of John with the sword. 3 Seeing that this pleased the elders, Herod arrested Peter during the Passover feast. 4 And he put him in jail guarded by four groups of four soldiers each. Herod's intention was to hand Peter over to the Jews to be judged after the Passover. 5 But all the time he spent in prison, the church prayed fervently to God, pleading for his life.
6 The night before his trial, Peter was sleeping in double chains between two soldiers; there were still other guards at the prison door. 7 Suddenly, there was a light in the cell and an angel of the Lord appeared next to him, touching him to wake him up, and saying: “Get up quickly!” Soon the chains fell from her wrists. 8 And he continued: “Clothe yourself and put on your shoes.” Peter obeyed. “Now wrap yourself in your cloak and follow me!”
9 He left the cell behind the angel, but not knowing that what the angel was doing was real, he thought it was a vision. 10 They passed the first and second guard posts and came to the iron gate that led into the city, which opened of itself in front of them! They crossed it and walked together for the space of a block. And then suddenly the angel disappeared.
11 Only then did Peter understand what had happened. “It's really true!” he said to himself. "The Lord sent his angel to save me from Herod's hand and from what the Jews wanted to do to me!"
12 After some thought, he went to the house of Mary, mother of John Mark, where many were gathered to pray. 13 He knocked on the entrance gate and it was opened by a girl named Rode. 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so happy that she ran back into the house saying who was at the front door; but they did not believe her words. 15 “You're not right in the head!”, they said. But when she insisted, they judged: “It must be your angel!”
16 Meanwhile, Peter kept knocking at the door. When they finally opened it, the surprise couldn't have been greater. 17 Peter motioned to them to calm down and told them what had happened and how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell Tiago and the others what happened too,” he said, then left for a safer place.
18 When the morning came, there was a great commotion in the prison. What became of Peter? 19 When Herod sent for him and learned that he was not there, he arrested the guards who were sentenced to death.
After this Herod left Judea and went to Caesarea for a time. 20 There a delegation from Tire and Sidon sought him out. Herod was in conflict with the people of those two cities, but the envoys, befriending Blastus, the king's secretary, asked for peace, as their cities depended on the king for food. 21 After an appointment with the king had been arranged, on the appointed day, Herod, in his royal robes, sat on the throne and made a speech. 22 At the end, the people shouted with great applause: “This is not a man talking! It is the voice of a god!”
23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a disease, so that he was filled with worms and died, because he had accepted the worship of the people instead of giving glory to God.
24 The good news of God, however, spread quickly, and there were many new believers. 25 Barnabas and Saul finished their mission in Jerusalem and returned to Antioch, taking John Mark with them.
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