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42 A.D. |
ACTS of the APOSTLES
Chapter 12, Verses 1-11
It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”
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AUBIN VOUET
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DAVID TENIERS the Younger
"The Deliverance of Saint Peter"
39
ANTONIO DE PEREDA Y SALGADO
"Saint Peter Freed by an Angel"
41
PIETER NEEFS THE ELDER
"Liberation of Saint Peter"
42
PIETER NEEFS the Younger
"Interior of a Prison with Sleeping Guards, St. Peter Beyond"
43
PIETER NEEFS the Younger
"Interior of a Prison with Saint Peter Fleeing with the Angel"
44
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"St. Peter Delivered From Prison"
45
HE QI
"Peter Delivered from Prison"
46
"Liberation of St Peter"
47
ALESSANDRO TIARINI
"St Peter Freed from Prison by an Angel"
48
GIOVANNI GHISOLFI BOZZETTO
"St Peter Freed from Prison by an Angel"
49
SISTO BADALOCCHIO
"The Liberation of St. Peter"
50
KONRAD WITZ
"The Liberation of St Peter"
51
MATHEUS VAN HELMONT
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
52
CARLO SARACENI
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
53
DANIEL SEITER
"The Liberation of Saint Peter from Prison"
54
ANTHONIE CLAEISSINS
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
55
ERCOLE GRAZIANI
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
56
JUAN DE VALDES LEAL
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
57
FILIPPO LIPPI
"Liberation of St. Peter"
58
DOMENICHINO
"The Liberation Of Saint Peter"
59
LUCA GIORDANO
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
60
GUERCINO
"The Liberation of St Peter"
61
JANUARIUS ZICK
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
62
JEAN-FRANCOIS DETROY
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
63
ALESSANDRO TURCHI
"The Liberation of St. Peter"
64
ERCOLE GRAZIANI
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
65
MATTIA PRETI
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
66
MATTIA PRETI
"Liberation of St. Peter"
67
"The Liberation Of Saint Peter"
68
"Liberation of Saint Peter"
69
JOHANN GEORG TRAUTMANN
"The Liberation of St Peter"
70
PIETRO NOVELLI
"The Liberation of St. Peter"
71
LAURENT DE LA HYRE
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
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72
LEONARD BRAMER
"The Liberation of Saint Peter"
To be continued…
And Can It Be, That I Should Gain?
Charles Wesley (1738)
1 And can it be that I should gain
An int'rest in the Savior's blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me?
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me!
2 'Tis mystery all! Th'Immortal dies!
Who can explore His strange design?
In vain the firstborn seraph tries
To sound the depths of love divine!
'Tis mercy all! let earth adore,
Let angel minds inquire no more.
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me!
3 He left His Father's throne above,
So free, so infinite His grace;
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam's helpless race;
'Tis mercy all, immense and free;
For, O my God, it found out me.
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me!4 Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature's night;
Thine eye diffused a quick'ning ray,
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free;
I rose, went forth and followed Thee.
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me!
5 No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th'eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own.
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me!
Amen.Sing Joyfully
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I wonder what happened to the jailers?..............
Good Morning, Dan! :-)
You know. They were executed.
Look at #43, the angel is translucent!..............
That’s a shame...............
Mary-Lou! Or is this Penny, standing in?
So, you’re calling that angel a tranny?
All are very beautiful, for me Guercino and Preti stand out. Great selection.
I think that the painter actually got the scene correct!..........................
As I said yesterday, a bumper crop.
That settles it, then.
Penny!
ML is out on the Bike.
Finally, someone to converse with who has some common sense. By the way, if you decide to dismantle her sofa, go ahead and blame me.
If ML wants her sofa dismantled, she is quite capable of doing so herself.
ML, totally reupholstered a sofa back-in-the-day, burning out a Pfaff Industrial Sewing Machine in the process.
Her big dumb Samoyed Preston (my predecessor) was the instigator of THAT debacle.
Yes, I recall reading about it. In fact, she never shuts up about it, does she? Maybe it’s time you gave her something new to whine about.
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