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Acts 12 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Acts chapter 12. Now about that time Harry the
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  King laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order
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  to mistreat them, and he had James, the brother of John, put
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  to death with the sword. When he saw that it pleased the
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  Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also.
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  Now it was during the days of Unleavened Bread.
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  When he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to
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  4 squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the
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  Passover to bring him out before the people.
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  So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being
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  made fervently by the Church to God.
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  On the very night when Harry was about to bring him forward,
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  Peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound with two chains,
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  and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.
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  And behold, an Angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, and a light
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  shone in the cell. And he struck Peter's side and
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  woke him up, saying, Get up quickly.
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  And his chains fell off his hands.
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  And the Angel said to him, Gird yourself and put on your
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  sandals. And he did so.
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  And he said to him, Wrap your cloak around you, and follow me.
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  And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that
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  what was being done by the Angel was real, but thought he was
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  seeing a vision. When they had passed the 1st and
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  2nd guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city,
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  which opened for them by itself. And they went out and went
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  along. 1 St. And immediately the Angel
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  departed from him. When Peter came to himself, he
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  said, Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth his
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  Angel, and rescued me from the hand of Herod, and from all that
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  the Jewish people were expecting.
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  When he realized this, he went to the House of Mary, the mother
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  of John, who was also called Mark, where many were gathered
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  together and were praying. When he knocked at the door of
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  the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
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  When she recognized Peter's voice because of her joy, she
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  did not open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter was
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  standing in front of the gate. They said to her, You are out of
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  your mind. But she kept insisting that it
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  was so. They kept saying it is his
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  Angel. But Peter continued knocking,
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  and when they had opened the door they saw him and were
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  amazed. But motioning to to them with
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  his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord
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  had led him out of the prison. And he said, Report these things
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  to James and the brethren. Then he left and went to another
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  place. Now when day came, there was no
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  small disturbance among the soldiers as to what could have
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  become of Peter. When Herod had searched for him
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  and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered
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  that they be LED away to execution.
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  Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and was spending time
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  there. Now he was very angry with the
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  people of Tyre and Sidon. With 1 accord they came to him,
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  and having won over Blastus, the King's Chamberlain, they were
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  asking for peace, because their country was fed by the King's
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  country. On an appointed day, Herod,
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  having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum,
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  began delivering an address to them.
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  The people kept crying out the voice of a God and not of a man,
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  and immediately an Angel of the Lord struck him, because he did
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  not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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  But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be
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  multiplied, and Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem
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  when they had fulfilled their mission, taking along with them
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  John, who was also called Mark.