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The liberation of the apostle Peter is an event described in chapter 12 of the Acts of the Apostles, where the apostle Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. Although described in a short textual passage, the tale has given rise to theological discussions and has been the subject of a number of artworks.
The painting shows how Saint Peter was liberated from Herod's prison by an angel, as described in Acts 12. It is technically an overdoor. The fresco shows three scenes in symmetrical balance formed by the feigned architecture and stairs. In the centre the angel wakes Peter, and on the right guides him past the sleeping guards.
After Peter was miraculously released from prison, he went to the house and knocked on the door. Rhoda came to answer it, and when she heard Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she rushed to tell the others and forgot to open the door for him. She told the group of Christians who were praying that Peter was there. They did not believe her ...
Williams referred to the Bible’s Acts 12:6-11 where an angel rescues the apostle Peter from prison. “There are good angels and bad ones, both in high places,” he wrote.
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Apostle Peter Released from Prison, Jacopo di Cione, 1370-1371 (Philadelphia Museum of Art). The Liberation of St Peter from Prison (also called the Deliverance of Saint Peter) is a small tempera on wood panel or predella from a large polyptych or multipanel altarpiece painted in 1370-1371 by Jacopo di Cione for the no-longer extant church of San Pier Maggiore in Florence, Italy.
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In I Peter 3:19, the word is phylake (can also be anglic. as Phylace), meaning prison. [citation needed] Angels and the Book of Enoch; Friedrich Spitta (1890), [14] [15] Joachim Jeremias and others suggested that Peter was making a first reference to Enochic traditions, such as found again in the Second Epistle of Peter chapter 2 and the ...