Intervention of the angel shows that God is answering the earlier prayer in which he was asked to take notice of the hostility of the Jewish leadership and grant them boldness to continue speaking of Christ (Acts 4:29). Two further prison breaks are also described elsewhere in Acts (Acts 12:6–11; Acts 16:25–26).
19 Mais un ange du Seigneur, ayant ouvert pendant la nuit les portes de la prison, les fit sortir, et leur dit: