Peter's Rescue and Rhoda's Mistake

Peter’s Rescue and Rhoda’s Mistake
Acts 12.6-19

One of the sure touches of a master writer is knowing how to create a seriously funny scene in the middle of an extremely serious one. Think of Shakespeare’s subplots, with the gravedigger scene in Hamlet providing dark humour when all around is going wrong. Somehow the reader needs to be able to smile a little, to shift perspective and see things from a different point of view. Because many Christians assume that the Bible could never, or should never, be funny, they often ignore the humour, even when, as here, it jumps up, wagging its tail, demanding attention...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 1 by Tom Wright