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Acts 12:9
Acts 12:9 is verse 9 of Acts chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.
King James Version
And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.
World English Bible
And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
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Acts 12:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.
8 “Get dressed and put on your sandals,” said the angel. Peter did so, and the angel told him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”
9 So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.
10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.
11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 26:19So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
Genesis 6:22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
Acts 10:3One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
Acts 10:17While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
Acts 11:5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
Genesis 45:26“Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.
Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
2 Corinthians 12:1I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.
2 Corinthians 12:3And I know that this man—whether in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows—