Acts 10-12

It took me about 15 minutes to read this passage. Peter had been in prison before; the temple jail. But he had not been in Herod's prison. (I wonder what he thought as he walked past the whipping area where Jesus had been scourged?) Nor had he been under a death sentence. Now he understood the meaning of Jesus' words to him recorded in John's gospel, 21:17-19; though this wasn't the time for his death. He had been led some place where he didn't want to go. Maybe Peter was recalling that night in the garden when Jesus prayed and he had slept. I think Peter understood that his life was in God's hands. Maybe he fell asleep praying. Maybe he nodded off as he spoke of God grace in his life to his "captive" audience. Did they listen to him or mock him? We don't know. I wonder when those guards discovered that he was gone? I wonder how many of Peter's words came back to them as they were being beaten?
Stuart