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Divine Intervention

Acts 12:6-10

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. 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. Then the angel said to him, 'Put on your clothes and sandals.' And Peter did so. 'Wrap your cloak round you and follow me,' the angel told him. 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. 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. (NIVUK)

Insecure Herod Agrippa 1 had recently gained public support for killing James (Acts 12:1-3). Now he also wanted to kill Peter so he put him in prison until after the Jewish feast of Passover, lest the Jews would be offended by a public execution during their sacred festival – like Jesus a few years previously (Matthew 26:3-5). Meanwhile, the church was praying earnestly for Peter's safe release (Acts 12:5). What would happen? Well, Peter's work was not finished, and Jesus had promised that he would live to an old age (John 21:18) - so God intervened.