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1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex cer­tain of the church. 2 And he killed James the broth­er of John with the sword. 3 And be­cause he saw it pleased the Jews, he pro­ceed­ed fur­ther to take Pe­ter al­so. (Then were the days of un­leav­ened bread.) 4 And when he had ap­pre­hend­ed him, he put him in prison, and de­liv­ered him to four quater­nions of sol­diers to keep him; in­tend­ing af­ter East­er to bring him forth to the peo­ple. 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 hands. 8 And the an­gel said unto him, Gird thy­self, and bind on thy san­dals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy gar­ment about thee, and fol­low me. 9 And he went out, and fol­lowed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the an­gel; but thought he saw a vi­sion. 10 When they were past the first and the sec­ond ward, they came unto the iron gate that lead­eth unto the city; which opened to them of his own ac­cord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forth­with the an­gel de­part­ed from him. 11 And when Pe­ter was come to him­self, he said, Now I know of a sure­ty, that the Lord hath sent his an­gel, and hath de­liv­ered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the ex­pec­ta­tion of the peo­ple of the Jews. 12 And when he had con­sid­ered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the moth­er of John, whose sur­name was Mark; where many were gath­ered to­geth­er pray­ing. 13 And as Pe­ter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hear­ken, named Rho­da. 14 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. 15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she con­stant­ly af­firmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his an­gel. 16 But Pe­ter con­tin­ued knock­ing: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were as­ton­ished. 17 But he, beck­on­ing unto them with the hand to hold their peace, de­clared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he de­part­ed, and went into an­oth­er place. 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the sol­diers, what was be­come of Pe­ter. 19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he ex­am­ined the keep­ers, and com­mand­ed that they should be put to death. And he went down from Ju­daea to Cae­sarea, and there abode. 20 And Herod was high­ly dis­pleased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one ac­cord to him, and, hav­ing made Blas­tus the king's cham­ber­lain their friend, de­sired peace; be­cause their coun­try was nour­ished by the king's country. 21 And upon a set day Herod, ar­rayed in roy­al ap­par­el, sat upon his throne, and made an ora­tion unto them. 22 And the peo­ple gave a shout, say­ing, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And im­me­di­ate­ly the an­gel of the Lord smote him, be­cause he gave not God the glo­ry: and he was eat­en of worms, and gave up the ghost. 24 But the word of God grew and mul­ti­plied. 25 And Barn­abas and Saul re­turned from Jerusalem, when they had ful­filled their min­istry, and took with them John, whose sur­name was Mark.