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Seized by Agrippa for the Passover crowd and guarded by four squads, Peter slept between two soldiers when the angel woke him, and the iron gate opened of itself. He knocked at the house of Mary, Mark's mother, where the church was praying — and the girl Rhoda was too glad to open the door.
The liberation of the apostle Peter is an event described in chapter 12 of the Acts of the Apostles, in which the apostle Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. Although described in a short textual passage, the tale has given rise to theological discussions and has been the subject of a number of artworks.
The angel opens Herod's prison.