- verses
- 1
- first named
- Acts 12:13
- last named
- Acts 12:15
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Woman
Description
Who was Rhoda?
Rhoda was a servant girl who lived in the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, in Jerusalem (Act.12.13). During the reign of King Herod Agrippa I, the apostle Peter was imprisoned for his faith (Act.12.1-4). The church gathered at Mary's house to pray earnestly for Peter's safety and release (Act.12.5, 12). One night, as they were praying, an angel miraculously freed Peter from prison, and he made his way to Mary's house (Act.12.6-11). When Peter knocked at the gate, Rhoda went to answer (Act.12.13). Upon recognizing Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate and ran back inside to tell the others that Peter was standing outside (Act.12.14). Initially, the people inside did not believe her, thinking she was out of her mind or that it was Peter's angel (Act.12.15). However, when Peter continued knocking, they opened the door and were astonished to see him (Act.12.16). Rhoda's role in this account highlights the power of prayer and the unexpected ways in which God can answer the prayers of His people. Her joyful response to Peter's presence also demonstrates the love and unity among the early believers, even in the face of persecution.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Rhoda is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources