And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,
and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.
His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; until what he had said came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free;
who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me! Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.
As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.
And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.
I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him.
His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory.
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.
The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to put him to death. The Lord will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”
After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
“And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.
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