Acts 12:16-23

¹⁶But Peter kept on knocking; so when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

¹⁷Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. Then he said, “Tell these things to James and the brothers.” And going out he went off to a different place.

¹⁸Now as soon as it was day, there was no small commotion among the soldiers about what had become of Peter!

¹⁹Well after searching for him and not finding him, Herod examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Going down from Judea to Caesarea, he stayed there.

²⁰Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; so they came with one accord to him, and having won over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king's.

²¹So on an appointed day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on the throne and started to deliver an address to them.

²²But the crowd started calling out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”

²³Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give glory to God, and being eaten by worms, he died.