the door, but ran in and told them that Peter was standing there.
012:015 "You are mad," they said. But she strenuously maintained
that it was true. "It is his guardian angel," they said.
012:016 Meanwhile Peter went on knocking, until at last they opened the door
and saw that it was really he, and were filled with amazement.
012:017 But he motioned with his hand for silence, and then described
to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison.
"Tell all this to James and the brethren," he added.
Then he left them, and went to another place.
012:018 When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers,
as to what could possibly have become of Peter.
012:019 And when Herod had had him searched for and could not find him,
after sharply questioning the guards he ordered them away
to execution. He then went down from Judaea to Caesarea
and remained there.
012:020 Now the people of Tyre and Sidon had incurred Herod's
violent displeasure. So they sent a large deputation to wait on him;
and having secured the good will of Blastus, his treasurer,
they begged the king to be friendly with them again,
because their country was dependent on his for its food supply.
012:021 So, on an appointed day, Herod, having arrayed himself in royal robes,
took his seat on the tribunal, and was haranguing them;
012:022 and the assembled people kept shouting, "It is the voice of a god,
and not of a man!"
012:023 Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not
given the glory to God, and being eaten up by worms, he died.
012:024 But God's Message prospered, and converts were multiplied.
012:025 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having discharged
their mission, and they brought with them John, surnamed Mark.
013:001 Now there were in Antioch, in the Church there--as Prophets