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They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."
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The Surprise of Answered Prayer
Commentators highlight the profound irony in this scene: the believers were praying earnestly for Peter's release, yet when the answer arrived, their first reaction was to call the messenger "mad." This reveals a very human tendency to be shocked by a direct answer to prayer, showing, as Albert Barnes notes, that we can sometimes pray with very little actual faith that our specific request will be granted.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You are mad. You are insane. They seem to have regarded his rescue as so difficult and so hopeless that they considered it proof of derang…
Thou art mad (μαινη). Present middle indicative second person singular. Old verb, only in the middle voice. Festus used the same w…
19th Century
Anglican
It is his angel.—The language expresses the common belief of the Jews, that every true Israelite had a guardian angel specially assigned t…
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Mary’s house must have been of some size, with a vestibule opening onto the street, a courtyard, and rear living quarters—not only were “many peopl…
16th Century
Protestant
When he did knock at the gate. While they think that the maid is mad, who tells them that Peter had come, we gather from this that they di…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they said unto her, you are mad "Or are you not mad?" as the Ethiopic version, and two of Beza's exemplars read,…
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