Liberation of Peter

Noting that one of the major themes of the Book of Acts is that "Christ's servants follow in His footsteps", Jordan argues that the events of the chapter "recapitulate the resurrection of Jesus".

[4] Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff, like Jordan, relate the disbelief of Rhoda's message to Luke 24:1–12, where most of the disciples refuse to believe the news of the resurrection brought by a group of women.

In the fourth century, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Saint Juvenal, presented them to Eudocia, wife of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger, and she took them to Constantinople.

The traditional festival of "St Peter in Chains" was on 1 August, and had the collect: O God, who didst deliver thy holy Apostle Saint Peter from his bonds and suffer him to depart unhurt:vouchsafe, we pray thee; to deliver us from the bonds of our sins, and of thy mercy preserve us from all evil.

[8] Acts 12:7 is referred to in verse 4 of Charles Wesley's hymn And Can It Be:[9] Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.