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But during the night, the angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, led them out, and said,
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All those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
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“Forty years later, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.
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This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge?’ God sent as [both] ruler and deliverer, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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It was he who, in the assembly in the desert, was with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living utterances to hand on to us.
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You received the law as transmitted by angels, but you did not observe it.”
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Then the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, “Get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.”
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One afternoon about three o’clock, he saw plainly in a vision an angel of God come in to him and say to him, “Cornelius.”
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When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from his staff,
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They answered, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear what you have to say.”
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He related to us how he had seen [the] angel standing in his house, saying, ‘Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
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Suddenly the angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and awakened him, saying, “Get up quickly.” The chains fell from his wrists.
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The angel said to him, “Put on your belt and your sandals.” He did so. Then he said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”
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So he followed him out, not realizing that what was happening through the angel was real; he thought he was seeing a vision.
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They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate leading out to the city, which opened for them by itself. They emerged and made their way down an alley, and suddenly the angel left him.
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Then Peter recovered his senses and said, “Now I know for certain that [the] Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people had been expecting.”
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They told her, “You are out of your mind,” but she insisted that it was so. But they kept saying, “It is his angel.”
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At once the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not ascribe the honor to God, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
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For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, while the Pharisees acknowledge all three.
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A great uproar occurred, and some scribes belonging to the Pharisee party stood up and sharply argued, “We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
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For last night an angel of the God to whom [I] belong and whom I serve stood by me