Acts 12:16-19
16 Now Peter continued knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. 17 But motioning to them with his hand to keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Go, tell these things to James and to the brethren.” And he departed and went to another place. 18 Then, as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter. 19 But when Herod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Peter persistently knocked till the door as opened, then told of the Lord's deliverance from prison. The word spread about God's faithfulness throughout the church, while Herod searched in vain and in his anger had the guards at Peter's jail executed. So Peter went to another city for a while. Persistence, God's faithful deliverance, and the gates of hell unable to stop the church of His people - these we see here.
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