Acts 12:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Matt 18:10 : 10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Mark 16:11 : 11 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
  • Mark 16:14 : 14 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
  • Luke 24:11 : 11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.
  • Luke 24:37-38 : 37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
  • Gen 48:16 : 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
  • Job 9:16 : 16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"

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    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.

  • Acts 12:5-14
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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.

    10When 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.

    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.

  • Acts 11:12-14
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    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,

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  • Mark 14:69-70
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    69The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them."

    70But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."

  • 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 5:7-9
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    7About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

    8Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." She said, "Yes, for so much."

    9But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."

  • Mark 14:66-67
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    66As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,

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  • Acts 10:17-19
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    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.

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  • John 18:16-17
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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.

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    15All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

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    37But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

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    29The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

  • Acts 2:14
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    14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

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    46For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

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    69Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!"

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    10She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

    11When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

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    56A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."

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    15He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door.

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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.

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    9A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"

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    12They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"

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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.

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    11These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.

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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!"

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    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!"

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    40Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

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    23and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.