Acts 12.11
Then Peter came to himself and said, ‘Now I am sure
that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hands of Herod and
from all that the Jewish people were expecting.’
Peter has been arrested and
imprisoned again, this time by King Herod. Herod had already killed James, the
brother of John, one of those first four fishermen Jesus called, and it looked
like Peter would be next. But in the night, as Peter lay in prison, chained
between two soldiers, an angel appeared to him and told him to get up. His chains
fell off, and he was led out of the prison by the angel. Peter thought he was dreaming or having a
vision, but found himself outside in the street, and realised that he had been
rescued “from the hands of Herod and from
all that the Jewish people were expecting” . Those who had arrested him
thought this would be the end of him, and of the fledgling Christian movement. .
Peter hurried to the house
where the rest of the apostles had been praying for him and knocked on the
door. The maid, Rhoda, was so overjoyed and confused to see him that she forgot
to open the door and left him standing there, while those inside argued over
whether he was really there at all!
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Have you ever been “rescued” from something
frightening? How did it feel?
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