Acts 12:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.

Cross References

Acts 21:33

Then the tribune came, arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he inquired who he was and what he had done.

Hebrews 13:6

So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?”

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak.

Acts 28:20

For this reason therefore I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Acts 5:23

“We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.”

Matthew 28:4

For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men.

Jeremiah 40:4

Now look, I have just released you today from the fetters on your hands. If you wish to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take good care of you, but if you do not wish to come with me to Babylon, you need not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

Psalm 4:8

I will both lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety.

Genesis 22:14

So Abraham called that place “The Lord will provide,” as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said, “I will make an end of them and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”

Jeremiah 40:1

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in fetters along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

Acts 12:5

While Peter was kept in prison, the church prayed fervently to God for him.