Acts 12:10

World English Bible (2000)

When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

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  • Acts 5:19 : 19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,
  • Acts 16:26 : 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
  • Gen 40:3 : 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
  • Gen 42:17 : 17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
  • Num 15:34 : 34 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
  • Isa 21:8 : 8 He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
  • John 20:19 : 19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
  • John 20:26 : 26 After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."

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  • Acts 12:11-19
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    11When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."

    12Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

    13When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.

    14When 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.

    15They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."

    16But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

    17But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.

    18Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

    19When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

  • Acts 12:5-9
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    5Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

    6The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

    7And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands.

    8The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me."

    9And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

  • Acts 5:19
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    19But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

  • Acts 11:11-13
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    11Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

    12The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.

    13He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is Peter,

  • Acts 10:7-9
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    7When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

    8Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

    9Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

  • Acts 10:22-24
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    22They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say."

    23So he called them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

    24On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.

  • Acts 10:16-20
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    16This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

    17Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,

    18and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, was lodging there.

    19While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.

    20But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them."

  • Acts 14:27
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    27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

  • Acts 16:39-40
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    39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

    40They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

  • Acts 5:22-23
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    22But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

    23"We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"

  • Acts 16:35-36
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    35But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."

    36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."

  • Acts 10:3-4
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    3At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, "Cornelius!"

    4He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

  • Acts 10:27
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    27As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.

  • Acts 9:32
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    32It happened, as Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

  • John 18:16
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    16but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.

  • Zech 2:3
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    3Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

  • Acts 16:26-27
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    26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.

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    10They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

  • Acts 11:4
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  • Acts 8:26
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    26But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert."

  • 2 Cor 2:12
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    12Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

  • Acts 4:23
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    23Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

  • Acts 9:28
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    28He was with them entering into Jerusalem,