Acts 12:1-7 ▼

1 About that time, king Herod Agrippa began to persecute some of the church.

2 he caus'd James the brother of John to be beheaded.

3 and perceiving that the Jews were pleas'd with this, he proceeded to secure Peter during the feast of unleavened bread:

4 having apprehended Peter, he put him into prison, appointing a detachment of sixteen soldiers to guard him, intending to have him brought to publick execution, after Easter.

5 thus Peter was kept in prison, but the Church prayed to God, without ceasing, for him,

6 now the very night preceding the day which Herod design'd for his execution, Peter bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the other guards secured the prison door; when an angel of

7 the Lord suddenly appear'd and fill'd the room with light, and touching Peter on the side, awak'd him, saying, rise, be quick, and immediately his chains fell from his hands.