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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Acts 12 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Acts 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/11.htm" title="Acts 11">◄</a> Acts 12 <a href="../acts/13.htm" title="Acts 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/acts/12.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">An Angel Frees Peter from Prison</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now about that time <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to harm them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he had James the brother of John put to death with a sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. Now <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>it was during the days of Unleavened Bread. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out before the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now on <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Rise up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your garment around yourself and follow me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but was thinking he was seeing a vision. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when they had passed the first and second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When Peter came <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to himself, he said, “Now truly I know that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>that the Jewish people were expecting.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And when he realized <i>this</i>, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a servant-girl named Rhoda came to answer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And when she recognized Peter’s voice, because of her joy she did not open the gate. But she ran in and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And they said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is his angel.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened <i>the door</i>, they saw him and were astounded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he recounted to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. And he said, “Report these things to James and the brothers.” Then he left and went to another place. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now when day came, there was no small disturbance among the soldiers <i>as to</i> what <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>had become of Peter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And when Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away <i>to execution</i>. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there. <p class="hdg">The Death of Herod</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one accord they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king’s chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was fed by the king’s country. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And on an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel and sitting on the judgment seat, <i>began</i> delivering an address to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the assembly kept crying out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And immediately an angel of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Barnabas and Saul <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>returned <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to Jerusalem, fulfilling their ministry, taking along with <i>them</i> John, who was also called Mark.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Herod Agrippa I<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>they were the days</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>quaternions</i>; a quaternion was composed of four soldiers<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>that night</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>bind</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>in himself</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>the expectation of the people of the Jews</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>therefore had become</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> In OT, Yahweh, cf. 1 Kin 2:3<br><span class="fnverse">25</span> Or <i>returned, fulfilling their ministry in Jerusalem</i><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> Later mss <i>from</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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