I heard a voice call out over the Ulai River, "Gabriel, explain to him the meaning of what he saw."

Then the angel, who looked like a human being, reached out and touched my lips. I said to him, "Sir, this vision makes me so weak that I can't stop trembling.

"I am Gabriel," the angel answered. "I stand in the presence of God, who sent me to speak to you and tell you this good news.

Praise the LORD, you strong and mighty angels, who obey his commands, who listen to what he says.

You use the winds as your messengers and flashes of lightning as your servants.

Around him flaming creatures were standing, each of which had six wings. Each creature covered its face with two wings, and its body with two, and used the other two for flying.

Two wings of each creature were raised so that they touched the tips of the wings of the creatures next to it, and their other two wings were folded against their bodies.

The creatures themselves darted back and forth with the speed of lightning.

But about the angels God said, "God makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire."

While he was talking, I fell to the ground unconscious. But he took hold of me, raised me to my feet,

Then a hand took hold of me and raised me to my hands and knees; I was still trembling.

Then the angel, who looked like a human being, reached out and touched my lips. I said to him, "Sir, this vision makes me so weak that I can't stop trembling.

Once more he took hold of me, and I felt stronger.

Then one of the creatures flew down to me, carrying a burning coal that he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.

He touched my lips with the burning coal and said, "This has touched your lips, and now your guilt is gone, and your sins are forgiven."

Suddenly an angel of the Lord stood there, and a light shone in the cell. The angel shook Peter by the shoulder, woke him up, and said, "Hurry! Get up!" At once the chains fell off Peter's hands.

What are the angels, then? They are spirits who serve God and are sent by him to help those who are to receive salvation.

At the hour of the afternoon sacrifice the prophet Elijah approached the altar and prayed, "O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove now that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant and have done all this at your command.

When the time came for the evening sacrifice, I got up from where I had been grieving, and still wearing my torn clothes, I knelt in prayer and stretched out my hands to the LORD my God.

At about three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why did you abandon me?"

One day Peter and John went to the Temple at three o'clock in the afternoon, the hour for prayer.

It was about three o'clock one afternoon when he had a vision, in which he clearly saw an angel of God come in and say to him, "Cornelius!"

The next day, as they were on their way and coming near Joppa, Peter went up on the roof of the house about noon in order to pray.