Acts 12:1-5 tells of a perilous time in the early church: "About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword, and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church." (ESV) Peter and his fellow apostles had already been a part of an earlier prison escape; could there be another? What act by his fellow believers seems to have made the difference in terms of this event’s miraculous outcome? And what then might we glean from this 2,000 year old episode? Or in other words, does what happened way back then have any relevance for us in the here and now?