Acts 12:11–17

11 Then Peter came to himselfy and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued mez from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”

12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark,a where many people had gathered and were praying.b 13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.c 14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyedd she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

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.”e

16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. 17 Peter motioned with his handf for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell Jamesg and the other brothers and sistersh about this,” he said, and then he left for another place.