Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in Peter’s cell. The angel struck him on his side to wake him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
Suddenly there was a powerful earthquake that shook the prison from top to bottom. All at once the prison doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
Cornelius answered, “Three days ago at this very time, three o’clock in the afternoon, I was in my house praying. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood in front of me.
The night before Herod was going to put him on trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Lookouts were posted at the entrance to the prison.
After the wise men had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” the angel said. “Take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt! Stay there until I tell you to come back, because Herod is going to try to find the child and kill him.”