Bible Verses About Peter

“I was in the city of Yafo, praying; and in a trance I had a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came down to me.

I looked inside and saw four-footed animals, beasts of prey, crawling creatures and wild birds.

Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!’

I said, ‘No, sir! Absolutely not! Nothing unclean or treif has ever entered my mouth!’

But the voice spoke again from heaven: ‘Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.’

This happened three times, and then everything was pulled back up into heaven.

“At that very moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying;

and the Spirit told me to have no misgivings about going back with them. These six brothers also came with me, and we went into the man’s house.

He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Yafo and bring back Shim‘on, known as Kefa.

He has a message for you which will enable you and your whole household to be saved.’

“But I had hardly begun speaking when the Ruach HaKodesh fell on them, just as on us at the beginning!

And I remembered that the Lord had said, ‘Yochanan used to immerse people in water, but you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh.’

Therefore, if God gave them the same gift as he gave us after we had come to put our trust in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who was I to stand in God’s way?”

On hearing these things, they stopped objecting and began to praise God, saying, “This means that God has enabled the Goyim as well to do t’shuvah and have life!”

When Herod saw how much this pleased the Judeans, he went on to arrest Kefa as well. It was during the Days of Matzah,

so when Herod seized him, he threw him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each, with the intention of bringing him to public trial after Pesach.

So Kefa was being held under watch in prison, but intense prayer was being made to God on his behalf by the Messianic community.

The night before Herod was going to bring him to trial, Kefa was sleeping between two soldiers. He was bound with two chains; and guards were at the door, keeping watch over the prison.

Suddenly an angel of Adonai stood there, and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Kefa’s side and woke him. “Hurry! Get up!” he said; and the chains fell off his hands.

The angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals,” and he did. “Throw on your robe,” he said, “and follow me!”

Going out, Kefa followed him but did not realize that what was happening through the angel was real — he thought he was seeing a vision.

Having passed a first guard and a second, they arrived at the iron gate leading to the city. This opened to them by itself, and they made their exit. They went down the length of one street, and suddenly the angel left him.

Then Kefa came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod’s power and from everything the Judean people were hoping for.”

Realizing what had happened, he went to the house of Miryam the mother of Yochanan (surnamed Mark), where many people had gathered to pray.

He knocked at the outside door, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.