Meanwhile Peter went on knocking, and, when they opened the gate and saw him, they were amazed.
On his knocking at the door in the gate, a maidservant, named Rhoda, came to answer it.
"You are mad!" they exclaimed. But, when she persisted that it was so, they said: "It must be his spirit!"
Peter signed to them with his hand to be silent, and then told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison, adding: "Tell James and the Brethren all this." Then he left the house, and went away to another place.