25. Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.

26. For a whole year they gathered in church and taught a considerable number of people, and the disciples in Antioch for the first time began to be called Christians.

27. В те дни пришли из Иерусалима в Антиохию пророки.

28. И один из них, по имени Агав, встав, предвозвестил Духом, что по всей вселенной будет великий голод, который и был при кесаре Клавдии.

29. Тогда ученики положили, каждый по достатку своему, послать пособие братьям, живущим в Иудее,

30. что и сделали, послав собранное к пресвитерам через Варнаву и Савла.

Глава 12

1. At that time king Herod lifted up his hands against some of those who belonged to the church, to do them evil,

2. and he slew James the brother of John with the sword.

3. And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews, he took Peter also, for it was the days of unleavened bread,

4. and having detained him, he put him in prison, and commanded four quarters of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

5. So Peter was guarded in prison, while the church diligently prayed to God for him.

6. And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter slept between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the guards at the door were guarding the prison.

7. And behold, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone on the prison. The angel pushed Peter in the side, woke him up and said, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell from his hands.

8. And the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and put on your shoes." He did so. Then he said to him, "Put on your garment and follow me."

9. Peter went out and followed him, not knowing that what the angel was doing was real, but thinking that he was seeing a vision.

10. After passing through the first and second watches, they came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened to them of its own accord: they went out, and passed through a certain street, and suddenly the angel was not with him.

11. Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I see truly that the Lord has sent his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod and out of all that the Jewish people were waiting for."

12. And having looked around, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John, called Mark, where many were gathered and praying.

13. And when Peter knocked at the gate, a maidservant came out to hear, whose name was Rhoda,

14. and when she recognized Peter's voice, she did not open the gate for joy, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.