Acts 12:14
When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
13When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
15They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
Cross References
Luke 24:41While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to 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 →