Acts 12:5-14

⁵Then was Peter kepte in preson. But prayer was made with out ceasynge of the congregacion vnto God for him.

⁶And when Herode wolde have brought him oute vnto the people the same nyght slepte Peter bitwene two soudiers bounde with two chaynes and the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.

⁷And beholde the angell of the Lorde was there present and a lyght shyned in the lodge. And smote Peter on the syde and steryd him vp sayinge: aryse vp quyckly. And his cheynes fell of from his hondes.

⁸And the angell sayd vnto him: gyrde thy selfe and bynde on thy sandales. And so he dyd. And he sayde vnto him: cast thy mantle aboute the and folowe me.

⁹And he came oute and folowed him and wist not that it was truthe which was done by the angell but thought he had sene a vision.

¹⁰When they were past the fyrst and the seconde watche they came vnto the yron gate that ledeth vnto the cyte which opened to them by his awne accorde. And they went out and passed thorowe one strete and by and by the angell departed from him.

¹¹And when Peter was come to him selfe he sayde: now I knowe of a surety that the Lorde hath sent his angell and hath delyvered me out of the honde of Herode and from all the waytynge for of the people of the Iewes.

¹²And as he consydred the thinge he cam to the housse of Mary the mother of one Iohn which was called Marke also where many were gaddered to gedder in prayer.

¹³As Peter knocked at the entry dore a damsell cam forth to herken named Rhoda.

¹⁴And when she knew Peters voyce she opened not the entrey for gladnes but ran in and told how Peter stode before the entrey.