Acts 12:14

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”

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In The King James Version

And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.

In Context

13Peter knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

15“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

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Cross References

Luke 24:41While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

Matthew Henry on Acts 12:6-20

Peter's Imprisonment and Deliverance. 5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. 6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. 7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his… Read the whole commentary →

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