¹⁰ They passed the first and second guard posts and came to the iron gate leading to the city, and this opened for them all by itself. So they passed through and started walking down the street, and then the angel suddenly left him.

¹⁹ But an angel of the Lord came at night, opened the gates of the jail, and brought them out. Then he told them,

²⁶ Suddenly, there was a massive earthquake, and the prison was shaken to its foundations. All the doors immediately flew open, and the chains of every prisoner fell off!

Cyrus, the Lord’s Chosen One

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

¹⁹ That Sunday evening^[a] the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said.

³⁴ They held him in custody because they did not know what to do with him.

¹⁷ So Joseph put them all in prison for three days.

³ and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.

The Message to the Church in Philadelphia

⁷ “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia.