16But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.


In Context

13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door.

14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, "Peter is at the door!"

15 "You're out of your mind," they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, "It must be his angel."

16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.

17 Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell James and the brothers about this," he said, and then he left for another place.

18 In the morning, there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Acts 12:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened [the door,] and saw him, they were astonished.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking. And when they had opened, they saw him, and were astonished.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking: and having opened, they saw him and were astonished.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking. And when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16and Peter was continuing knocking, and having opened, they saw him, and were astonished,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:16But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.