The scene now changes and we are brought in contact with yet another implacable foe of the believers in Jerusalem. This time it is no less than Herod himself. He had already ordered the killing of James the brother of John and had taken Peter and shut him up in prison in order to have him killed also.
Herod was doing this in order to gain favor with the Jews who desired to stamp out the name of the Lord Jesus and His followers in Jerusalem. But we learn about the power of collective prayer in the deliverance of Peter to the assembly where earnest prayer was being made for him.
1. Herod, like Pilate before him, desired to please the Jews even though it meant the killing of an innocent man. Into what position before God is a person placed who will be a friend of the world? James 4:___
2. The Word of God records that there was unceasing and earnest prayer made for Peter. What is the result of the earnest prayer of the righteous person? James 5:___
3. What confidence does a believer have if he knows that his prayer is being asked according to God’s will? 1 John 5:___
4. What is one thing that the prayer of faith will accomplish? James 5:___
5. When Peter came to the house where many were gathered together praying, they refused to believe that he was really free from prison. What did the Lord Jesus do to the disciples (the Apostles), because they refused to believe the report that He had risen from the dead? Mark 16:___