No one named Rose appears in the Bible. A servant girl in the Book of Acts, though, is called Rhoda, a name made from the Greek word for “rose” (Acts 12:13). The “rose of Sharon” in the Song of Songs may not be a rose at all: the Hebrew word probably meant a crocus or another wild flower. Who was Rhoda in the Bible? Rhoda appears once, on the night Peter escaped from prison. After an angel led him out,…

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