ACTS 12:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.”
When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, 'Peter is at the door!'—Rhoda's joy ('overjoyed,' chara) is such that she forgets to open the door; recognition precedes action. Her voice-recognition (epignousa ten phōnēn) shows Peter's well-known presence and immediate danger (she shouts rather than lets him in). The comic-tragic moment shows human frailty amid divine deliverance.
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