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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job&#8217;s Final Defense</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Job continued his discourse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How I long for the months gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">for the days when God watched over me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">when his lamp shone on my head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">and by his light I walked through darkness!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship blessed my house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">when the Almighty was still with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">and my children were around me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">when my path was drenched with cream</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I went to the gate of the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">and took my seat in the public square,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the young men saw me and stepped aside</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">and the old men rose to their feet;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the chief men refrained from speaking</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">and covered their mouths with their hands;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the voices of the nobles were hushed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whoever heard me spoke well of me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">and those who saw me commended me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">because I rescued the poor who cried for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">and the fatherless who had none to assist them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The one who was dying blessed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">I made the widow&#8217;s heart sing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I put on righteousness as my clothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">justice was my robe and my turban.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I was eyes to the blind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">and feet to the lame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I was a father to the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">I took up the case of the stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I broke the fangs of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">and snatched the victims from their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I will die in my own house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">my days as numerous as the grains of sand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My roots will reach to the water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">and the dew will lie all night on my branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My glory will not fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">the bow will be ever new in my hand.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;People listened to me expectantly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">waiting in silence for my counsel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After I had spoken, they spoke no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">my words fell gently on their ears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They waited for me as for showers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">and drank in my words as the spring rain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">the light of my face was precious to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I chose the way for them and sat as their chief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I dwelt as a king among his troops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I was like one who comforts mourners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now they mock me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">men younger than I,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">whose fathers I would have disdained</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">to put with my sheep dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">since their vigor had gone from them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Haggard from want and hunger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">they roamed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">gnawed</span></span></span><span class="content"> the parched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">in desolate wastelands at night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In the brush they gathered salt herbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">and their food</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">fuel</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the root of the broom bush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were banished from human society,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">shouted at as if they were thieves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">among the rocks and in holes in the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They brayed among the bushes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">and huddled in the undergrowth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A base and nameless brood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">they were driven out of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now those young men mock me in song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">I have become a byword among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They detest me and keep their distance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">they do not hesitate to spit in my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">they throw off restraint in my presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On my right the tribe</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:12 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> attacks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they lay snares for my feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they build their siege ramps against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They break up my road;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">they succeed in destroying me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">&#8216;No one can help him,&#8217; they say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They advance as through a gaping breach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">amid the ruins they come rolling in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Terrors overwhelm me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my dignity is driven away as by the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my safety vanishes like a cloud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now my life ebbs away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">days of suffering grip me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Night pierces my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">my gnawing pains never rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In his great power God becomes like clothing to me</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">power he grasps my clothing</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">he binds me like the neck of my garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He throws me into the mud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">and I am reduced to dust and ashes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">I stand up, but you merely look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You turn on me ruthlessly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">with the might of your hand you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">you toss me about in the storm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I know you will bring me down to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">to the place appointed for all the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">when he cries for help in his distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Have I not wept for those in trouble?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">Has not my soul grieved for the poor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">when I looked for light, then came darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The churning inside me never stops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">days of suffering confront me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I go about blackened, but not by the sun;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have become a brother of jackals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">a companion of owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">My skin grows black and peels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">my body burns with fever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My lyre is tuned to mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="content">and my pipe to the sound of wailing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter&#8217;s Miraculous Escape From Prison</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. &#8220;Quick, get up!&#8221; he said, and the chains fell off Peter&#8217;s wrists.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the angel said to him, &#8220;Put on your clothes and sandals.&#8221; And Peter did so. &#8220;Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,&#8221; the angel told him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Peter came to himself and said, &#8220;Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod&#8217;s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When she recognized Peter&#8217;s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, &#8220;Peter is at the door!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;You&#8217;re out of your mind,&#8221; they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, &#8220;It must be his angel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. &#8220;Tell James and the other brothers and sisters about this,&#8221; he said, and then he left for another place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In the morning, there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Herod&#8217;s Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.12.19"><span class="content">Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together and sought an audience with him. After securing the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they depended on the king&#8217;s country for their food supply.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They shouted, &#8220;This is the voice of a god, not of a man.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Barnabas and Saul Sent Off</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission, they returned from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:25 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">to</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jerusalem, taking with them John, also called Mark.</span></span></div>
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