It's 8:30 Sunday night when Agnes arrives back home from Sunday night church. As the 73- year- old woman fiddles with her keys at the side door she's thinking how nice it'll be to have a hot cup of Earl Grey tea. Things like that are important on a cold wintry night in Nebraska.

Once inside her house Agnes notices something strange. She left the thermostat on 70 degrees, but the house is cold. Must be in the 40s. No wonder. The front door is wide open!

Agnes pushes the door shut. Then, to her horror, she notices the drawers of her desk pulled open with the papers and other things scattered all over the floor.

Next she hears a noise coming from the back of the house. Peering down the hallway she sees a stranger with a pillow case over one shoulder coming out of her bedroom.

"Stop, thief!" she shouts, holding up her Bible. Then she yells: "Acts 2:38."

In an instant the thief drops the pillow case, runs back into the bedroom, throws open the window, and dives out onto the snow- covered lawn.

Immediately, Agnes calls the cops and within two hours they have a suspect handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. In the area near Unadilla, Nebraska, there are few places for a running thief to hide. The boots he's wearing are a perfect match for the prints left behind in the snow. They're also prison- issue boots.

Agnes is able to describe the suspect to the satisfaction of the cops. After writing a full account of the incident, one cop asks the arrested con, "Why did you drop everything and run like that - all she did was quote some Scripture (Acts 2:38)?"

"What are you talking about, Scripture?" says the prisoner. "That crazy woman threatened to kill me. She said she had an axe and two .38's."

The Biblical text Agnes referred to says, in part. "Repent and be baptized... in the name of Jesus Christ...for the forgiveness of your sins."

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