Read Acts Chapter 12
1. What did Herod do around this time according to Acts 12:1-5?
2. What annual feast was going on at that time? Why is that significant?
3. What was the church doing while Peter was in prison in Acts 12:5?
4. What was about to happen to Peter according to Acts 12:6?
5. What was Peter’s physical situation in Acts 12:6?
6. What happened in Acts 12:7-8?
7. Record what the angel said to Peter.
8. What did Peter think about the events that were happening?
9. Happened in Acts 12:10?
Prayer prompt: Put yourself in Peter’s shoes. How would it feel for you to be awoken from a dead sleep and led out of several locked prison gates? What would that communicate to you about God? About His purposes for your life? His connection or relationship to you?
As you think thru this amazing historical event, ask God to show you the prisons He has led you out of and the locked-impassable doors or barrier He has helped you cross or opened for you.
10. What does Peter say about the situation in Acts 12:11?
11. What does Peter do in Acts 12:12-13?
12. What happened when Peter knocked on the door of the gate in Acts 12:13-14?
13. What is the reaction of those praying in the house? What do they say to her when she tells them Peter is at the door in Acts 12:14-15?
14. What did Peter do according to Acts 12:16?
15. What was the reaction of those who opened the door and saw Peter?
16. What did Peter do according to Acts 12:17?
17. What what was the reaction among the soldiers over Peter? Why?
18. What did Herod do when he learned of Peter’s escape in Acts 12:19?
19. Who came to see Herod in Caesarea according to Acts 12:20? Why?
Going deeper: Where was Tyre? Sidon? Why would they have been coming to Herod?
20. Herod delivered a speech to them in Acts 12:21. What was the reaction to the speech according to Acts 12:22?
21. What happened next in Acts 12:23?
Going deeper: Which “Herod” is being described in this story? Who was his father? Brothers?
Look up the following passages in the Apocrapha (sefaria.org) and think about how they might refer or apply to this passage on Herod’s fate: Judith 16:17-18, 2 Maccabees 9:9.
22. Review Ezekiel 28:1-10. What is the fate of those who think themselves a god or worthy to be called one?
23. Copy Acts 12:24 here. Allow this to penetrate your heart. Sit with God and ask Him to show you where you stand with this truth. Do you believe that God does such things? Can God’s word advance by God’s power alone?
24. What did Barnabas and Paul do after they completed their mission? Who was with them?
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