 When Herod threw Peter in prison, the Bible tells us that the church prayed earnestly for his deliverance. In Acts 12.6 we read, The night before Peter was to be placed on trial, he was asleep, fastened with two chains between two soldiers. Peter was probably the only Christian in Jerusalem who slept that night because everyone else was praying. But God heard their prayers and sent an angel to rescue Peter from his prison cell.