Acts 12:4-6

Expanded Bible

⁴ After Herod ·arrested [seized] Peter, he put him in ·jail [prison] and handed him over to be guarded by ·sixteen [^Lfour squads of four] soldiers. Herod planned to bring Peter ·before the people for trial [^Lto the people; ^Can idiom for a public trial] after the Passover Feast. ⁵ So Peter was kept in ·jail [prison], but the church prayed earnestly to God for him.

Peter Released by an Angel

⁶ The night before Herod was to bring him ·to trial [^Lout; ^Ceither for trial or for execution], Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Other soldiers were guarding the door of the jail.