It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who
belonged to the church,
intending to persecute them.
He had James, the brother of John, put to death
with the sword.
When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to
seize Peter also. This happened during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be
guarded by four squads of
four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the
Passover.
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to
God for him.
The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was
sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard
at the entrance.
Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He
struck Peter on the side and woke him up. "Quick, get up!" he said, and the
chains fell off Peter's wrists.
Then the angel said to him, "Put on your clothes and
sandals." And Peter did so. "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me," the
angel told him.
Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea
that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a
vision.
They passed the first and second guards and came to the
iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went
through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left
him.
헤롯이 베드로를
백성들 앞에 끌어내기로 한 그 전날 밤이었다. 베드로는 두 쇠사슬에 묶여, 군인 두 사람 틈에서 잠들어 있었고, 문 앞에는 파수꾼들이 감옥을 지키고 있었다.
그런데 갑자기 주님의 천사가 나타나고, 감방에 빛이 환히 비치었다. 천사가 베드로의 옆구리를 쳐서 깨우고
말하기를 "빨리 일어서라" 하였다. 그러자 쇠사슬이 그의 두 손목에서 풀렸다.
천사가 베드로에게 "띠를 띠고, 신을 신어라" 하고 말하니, 베드로가 그대로 하였다. 또 천사가 그에게 "겉옷을 두르고, 나를
따라오너라" 하니,
베드로가 감방에서 나와서, 천사를 따라갔다. 베드로는 천사가 하는 일이 참인 줄 모르고, 자기가 환상을
보고 있는 것이라고 생각하였다.
그들이 첫째 초소와 둘째 초소를 지나서, 시내로 통하는 철문에 이르니, 문이 저절로 열렸다. 그래서 그들은
바깥으로 나와서, 거리를 하나 지났다. 그 때에 갑자기
천사가 떠나갔다.
Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I know without a
doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod's clutches and from
everything the Jewish people were anticipating."
When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary
the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were
praying.
Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl
named Rhoda came to answer the door.
When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she
ran back without opening it and exclaimed, "Peter is at the door!"
"You're out of your mind," they told her. When she kept
insisting that it was so, they said, "It must be his angel."
그 때에야 베드로가 정신이 나서 말하였다. "이제야 참으로 알겠다. 주님께서 주님의 천사를 보내셔서, 헤롯의 손에서, 그리고 유대 백성이 꾸민 모든 음모에서, 나를
건져 주셨다."
이런 사실을 깨닫고서, 베드로는, 마가라고도 하는 요한의 어머니 마리아의 집으로 갔다. 거기에는 많은 사람이 모여서 기도하고
있었다.
그 여종은 베드로의 목소리를 알아듣고, 너무 기뻐서, 문을 열지도 않고 도로 달려들어가서, 대문 앞에
베드로가 서 있다고 알렸다.
사람들이 여종에게 "네가 미쳤구나" 하고 말하자, 여종은 참말이라고 우겼다. 그러자 그들은 "베드로의
천사일거야" 하고 말하였다.
But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door
and saw him, they were astonished.
Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and
described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell James and the brothers about this," he said,
and then he left for another place.
In the morning, there was no small commotion among the
soldiers as to what had become of Peter.
After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not
find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then
Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there a while.
He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon;
they now joined together and sought an audience with him. Having secured the
support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for
peace, because they depended on the king's country for their food supply.
그 동안에 베드로가 줄곧 문을 두드리니, 사람들이 문을 열어서 베드로를 보고, 깜짝 놀랐다.
베드로는 손을 흔들어서 그들을 조용하게 하고, 주님께서 자기를 감옥에서 인도하여 내신 일을 이야기하였다. 그리고 그는 "이
사실을 야고보와 다른 신도들에게 알리시오" 하고
말하고는, 거기에서 떠나 다른 곳으로 갔다.
날이 새니, 군인들 사이에서는 베드로가 없어진 일로 작지 않은 소동이 일어났다.
헤롯은 샅샅이
찾아보았으나, 베드로를 찾지 못하고, 경비병들을 문초한 뒤에, 명령을 내려서 그들을 사형에 처하였다. 그런 다음에, 헤롯은 유대를 떠나 가이사랴로 내려가서, 거기에서 한동안 지냈다.
그런데 두로와 시돈 사람들은 헤롯에게 몹시 노여움을 사고 있었다. 그래서 그들은 뜻을
모아서, 왕을 찾아갔다. 그들은 왕의 침실 시종 블라스도를 설득하여, 그를 통해서 헤롯에게 화평을 청하였다. 그들의 지방이 왕의 영토에서 식량을
공급받고 있었으므로, 이렇게 할 수밖에 없었다.
On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on
his throne and delivered a public address to the people.
They shouted, "This is the voice of a god, not of a
man."
Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an
angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
But the word of God continued to increase and
spread.
When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission, they
returned from Jerusalem, taking with them John, also called Mark.
