Acts 12:6

"On the very night" On the very night before his scheduled trial and execution. "Peter was sleeping" It is difficult to sleep when the mind is filled with worry and apprehension, yet Peter does not seem to be alarmed about his impending death. Notice that Peter probably does not expect deliverance because God had not intervened when James had been arrested. Later when Paul is arrested, he is singing. Thus Luke pictures both Peter and Paul as being equally defiant of death. "Between two soldiers, bound with chains" "Luke deliberately stresses the thoroughness with which the apostle was being guarded against escape or rescue. Normally it was considered enough for. prisoner to be handcuffed to one soldier" (Stott p. 209). From. human perspective this certainly looks like. hopeless situation for Peter.