Acts 12:6-19 - Peter Rescued By An Angel
6 Now just as Herod was going to bring him out, that is, the very night before, Peter was fastened with two chains and was sleeping between two soldiers, and the guards were at the door guarding the prison. 7 And suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in his cell, and by striking Peter on the side the angel woke him, and said, "Get up quickly!" At once the chains fell off his hands. 8 Then the angel said to him, "Tighten your belt and put on your shoes? He did so. Then the angel said to him, "Put on your coat and follow me!" 9 So he kept following him out, but he was not conscious that what was being done by the angel was real; he thought he was dreaming it. 10 They passed the first guard, then the second, and at last came to the iron gate which led into the city. The gate of itself opened to them, and they passed out and proceeded one block when all at once the angel left him.
11 Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I really know that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting to do to me." 12 When he became conscious of his situation, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, were a large number of people had met and were praying. 13 When he knocked at the outer door, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it, 14 and on recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she failed to open the door but ran and told them that Peter was standing at the door.
15 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she persistently insisted that it was so. Then they said, "It is his guardian angel!" 16 But Peter, meanwhile, kept on knocking. So they opened the door, and when they saw him, they were astounded.
17 With his hand he motioned to them to be quiet, and then he told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He added, "Tell all these things to James and the brothers." Then he left them and went somewhere else.
18 When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter. 19 Herod had search made for him, and when he could not find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be put to death. Then he left Judea for Caesarea, and stayed there.