Up to this chapter we have been seeing the body of Christ at work. Now we will examine three events which Dr. Luke, the writer of Acts, puts together, yet which seem somewhat unrelated at first. But no choice of events in the Word of God is ever without significance, and these are very significant for us. The three events are the murder of James the Apostle, the deliverance of Peter from prison by the intervention of an angel, and the death of Herod the king.