Acts 12:6

New Living Translation

The night before Peter was to be placed on trial, he was asleep, fastened with two chains between two soldiers. Others stood guard at the prison gate.

Cross References

Genesis 22:14

Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

Psalm 4:8

In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, will keep me safe.

Jeremiah 40:1

The Lord gave a message to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the other captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being sent to exile in Babylon.

Jeremiah 40:4

But I am going to take off your chains and let you go. If you want to come with me to Babylon, you are welcome. I will see that you are well cared for. But if you don’t want to come, you may stay here. The whole land is before you—go wherever you like.

Matthew 28:4

The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.

Acts 12:5

But while Peter was in prison, the church prayed very earnestly for him.

Acts 21:33

Then the commander arrested him and ordered him bound with two chains. He asked the crowd who he was and what he had done.

Acts 28:20

I asked you to come here today so we could get acquainted and so I could explain to you that I am bound with this chain because I believe that the hope of Israel—the Messiah—has already come.”

Acts 5:23

“The jail was securely locked, with the guards standing outside, but when we opened the gates, no one was there!”

Ephesians 6:20

I am in chains now, still preaching this message as God’s ambassador. So pray that I will keep on speaking boldly for him, as I should.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have annihilated them, wiping out even the memory of them.

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord show special kindness to Onesiphorus and all his family because he often visited and encouraged me. He was never ashamed of me because I was in chains.

Hebrews 13:6

So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me?”