Acts 12:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ So, he followed the angel out [of the jail], not fully realizing what had happened, thinking [perhaps] he had seen [all this in] a vision.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And [Peter] went out [along] following him, and he was not conscious that what was apparently being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And he went out, and followed; and he knew not that it was true which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.

Common English Bible

⁹ Following the angel, Peter left the prison. However, he didn’t realize the angel had actually done all this. He thought he was seeing a vision.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And going out, he followed him. And he did not know this truth: that this was being done by an Angel. For he thought that he was seeing a vision.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And going out, he followed him, and he knew not that it was true which was done by the angel: but thought he saw a vision.

Acts 12:9 Cross References

John 2:5

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you to do.”

Acts 10:17

Now while Peter was much perplexed over the meaning of this vision, the men sent by Cornelius, having learned where Simon [the tanner] lived, arrived at the gate [of his house],

Acts 10:3

About three o’clock one afternoon [Note: This is based on Jewish time calculations; if Roman time were employed, it would have been 9 AM], while he was wide awake, he had a vision in which an angel of God came to him [and spoke his name] “Cornelius.”

Acts 11:5

“I was in the city of Joppa and [one day], while praying, I fell into a trance [i.e., a semi­conscious, vision-like state] and saw a huge sheet-like container being lowered down from the sky by its four corners. As it came into view

Acts 12:8

The angel [then] said to him, “Put on your belt and sandals,” so he did. Then the angel said, “Throw your [outer] robe around you and follow me.”

Acts 26:19

“As a result of this, O King, I did not disobey [the mandate of] this vision from heaven

Acts 9:10

Now [in the meantime] the Lord spoke in a vision to a certain disciple named Ananias [who lived] in Damascus. He called to him by name, “Ananias.” “Yes, Lord, here I am” Ananias replied.

Hebrews 11:8

By [having] faith, when Abraham was called [by God] to leave [his homeland] and go to a place he would later receive as an inheritance [i.e., Palestine], he obeyed God and went out, not knowing where he was going.