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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.
Rhoda (whose name means "rose" [1]) was a girl (Biblical Greek: παιδίσκη) living in the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark. Many biblical translations state that she was a 'maid' or 'servant girl'. After Peter was miraculously released from prison, he went to the house and knocked on the door.
Acts 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the death of the first apostle, James, son of Zebedee, followed by the miraculous escape of Peter from prison, the death of Herod Agrippa I, and the early ministry of Barnabas and Paul of Tarsus.
Peter and Paul, depicted in a 4th century etching with their names in Latin and the Chi-Rho. The Acts of the Apostles relates a fallout between Paul and Barnabas soon after the Council of Jerusalem, but gives the reason as the fitness of John Mark to join Paul's mission (Acts 15:36–40). Acts also describes the time when Peter went to the ...
An inmate who once escaped from prison by hiding in a dog crate, and whose story inspired a book and a movie, died behind bars on Sunday at the age of 45 in Arizona.. John Manard managed to escape ...
Tertullian writes that Paul was 'crowned with an exit like John' (Paulus Ioannis exitu coronatur), although it is unclear which John he meant. [199] Eusebius states that Paul was killed during the Neronian Persecution [200] and, quoting from Dionysius of Corinth, argues that Peter and Paul were martyred "at the same time". [201]
The painting shows how Saint Peter was liberated from Herod's prison by an angel, as described in Acts 12. It is technically an overdoor. The fresco shows three scenes in symmetrical balance formed by the fictive architecture and stairs. In the centre the angel wakes Peter, and on the right guides him past the sleeping guards.
The Liberation of Saint Peter from Prison (or the Deliverance of Saint Peter) is a small predella panel in tempera on wood from a large polyptych painted in 1370–1371 by Jacopo di Cione for the (no longer extant) church of San Pier Maggiore in Florence. It is now part of the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [1]