But during the night, an angel of Adonai opened the doors of the prison, led them out and said,

Everyone sitting in the Sanhedrin stared at Stephen and saw that his face looked like the face of an angel.

“After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush.

“This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.

This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by the angel that had spoken to him at Mount Sinai and by our fathers, the man who was given living words to pass on to us.

you! — who receive the Torah as having been delivered by angels — but do not keep it!”

An angel of Adonai said to Philip, “Get up, and go southward on the road that goes down from Yerushalayim to ‘Azah, the desert road.”

One afternoon around three o’clock he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

Cornelius stared at the angel, terrified. “What is it, sir?” he asked. “Your prayers,” replied the angel, “and your acts of charity have gone up into God’s presence, so that he has you on his mind.

As the angel that had spoken to him went away, Cornelius called two of his household slaves and one of his military aides, who was a godly man;

They answered, “Cornelius. He’s a Roman army officer, an upright man and a God-fearer, a man highly regarded by the whole Jewish nation; and he was told by a holy angel to have you come to his house and listen to what you have to say.”

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.

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.”

“You’re out of your mind!” they said to her. But she insisted it was true. So they said, “It is his angel.”

At once, because Herod did not give the glory to God, an angel of Adonai struck him down. He was eaten away by worms and died.

For the Tz’dukim deny the resurrection and the existence of angels and spirits; whereas the P’rushim acknowledge both.

So there was a great uproar, with some of the Torah-teachers who were on the side of the P’rushim standing up and joining in — “We don’t find anything wrong with this man; and if a spirit or an angel spoke to him, what of it?”

For this very night, there stood next to me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve.