Acts 12

Question 1

Acts 12:1

Answer 1

It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.

Question 2

Acts 12:2

Answer 2

He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.

Question 3

Acts 12:3

Answer 3

When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Question 4

Acts 12:4

Answer 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.

Question 5

Acts 12:5

Answer 5

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

Question 6

Acts 12:6

Answer 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.

Question 7

Acts 12:7

Answer 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.

Question 8

Acts 12:8

Answer 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.

Question 9

Acts 12:9

Answer 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.

Question 10

Acts 12:10

Answer 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.

Question 11

Acts 12:11

Answer 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.”

Question 12

Acts 12:12

Answer 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.

Question 13

Acts 12:13

Answer 13

Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door.

Question 14

Acts 12:14

Answer 14

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

Question 15

Acts 12:15

Answer 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.”

Question 16

Acts 12:16

Answer 16

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.

Question 17

Acts 12:17

Answer 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.

Question 18

Acts 12:18

Answer 18

In the morning, there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Question 19

Acts 12:19

Answer 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.

Question 20

Acts 12:20

Answer 20

He had been quarreling 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.

Question 21

Acts 12:21

Answer 21

On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people.

Question 22

Acts 12:22

Answer 22

They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.”

Question 23

Acts 12:23

Answer 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.

Question 24

Acts 12:24

Answer 24

But the word of God continued to increase and spread.

Question 25

Acts 12:25

Answer 25

When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission, they returned from Jerusalem, taking with them John, also called Mark.