¹² When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark,^(A) where many people had gathered and were praying.^{(B) 13} Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.^{(C) 14} When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed^(D) she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

¹⁵ “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”^(E)

¹⁶ But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. ¹⁷ Peter motioned with his hand^(F) for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell James^(G) and the other brothers and sisters^(H) about this,” he said, and then he left for another place.