[영어 성경] Acts chapter 12

Ac. 12:1 It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who

belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.

Ac. 12:2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the

sword.

Ac. 12:3 When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to

seize Peter also. This happened during the Feast of

Unleavened Bread.

Ac. 12:4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to

be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod

intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

Ac. 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly

praying to God for him.

Ac. 12:6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was

sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and

sentries stood guard at the entrance.

Ac. 12:7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in

the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up.

“Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.

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Ac. 12:8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and

sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you

and follow me,” the angel told him.

Ac. 12:9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that

what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought

he was seeing a vision.

Ac. 12:10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron

gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they

went through it. When they had walked the length of one

street, suddenly the angel left him.

Ac. 12:11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a

doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from

Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were

anticipating.”

Ac. 12:12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary

the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had

gathered and were praying.

Ac. 12:13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named

Rhoda came to answer the door.

Ac. 12:14 When she recognised Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she

ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the

door!”

Ac. 12:15 “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept

insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

Ac. 12:16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door

and saw him, they were astonished.

Ac. 12:17 Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and

described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell

James and the brothers about this,” he said, and then he left

for another place.

Ac. 12:18 In the morning, there was no small commotion among the

soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

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Ac. 12:19 After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not

find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they

be executed. Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and

stayed there a while.

Ac. 12:20 He had been quarrelling with the people of Tyre and Sidon;

they now joined together and sought an audience with him.

Having secured the support of Blastus, a trusted personal

servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they

depended on the king’s country for their food supply.

Ac. 12:21 On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on

his throne and delivered a public address to the people.

Ac. 12:22 They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.”

Ac. 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an

angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by

worms and died.

Ac. 12:24 But the word of God continued to increase and spread.

Ac. 12:25 When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission, they

returned from [Some manuscripts: to] Jerusalem, taking with

them John, also called Mark.