3. Seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to arrest Peter also. This happened during the Days of Unleavened Bread.
4. When he had seized him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him before the people after the Passover.
5. So Peter was kept in prison. But the church prayed to God without ceasing for him.
6. The very night when Herod would have brought him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. And the guards before the door were securing the prison.
7. And suddenly an angel of the Lord approached him, and a light shone in the prison. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Rise up, quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.
8. Then the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put your sandals on.” And he did so. Then he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”
9. He went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
10. When they had passed the first and the second guards, they came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened to them by itself. And they went out and went forward one street. And immediately the angel left him.
11. When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I certainly know that the Lord has sent His angel and delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”
12. Realizing this, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John, whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together praying.
13. As Peter knocked at the door of the porch, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
14. When she recognized Peter’s voice, from joy she did not open the door, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the door.
15. They said to her, “You are insane.” But she insisted that it was really so. So they said, “It is his angel.”
16. But Peter continued knocking. And when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.