Acts 5:10-27

¹⁰Immediately she fell down dead at his feet. The young men came back in and found her dead, so they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

¹¹Great fear spread through the whole church, as well as among everyone who heard what had happened.

¹²Many miraculous signs were performed among the people by the apostles. All the believers used to meet together in Solomon's porch.

¹³Nobody else dared to join them even though they were greatly respected.

¹⁴However, many men and women came to believe in the Lord.

¹⁵As a result, people brought those who were sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that as Peter passed by his shadow might fall on them.

¹⁶Crowds from the towns around Jerusalem brought their sick and those afflicted by evil spirits. They were all healed.

¹⁷However, the high priest and those with him (who were Sadducees) became very jealous and decided to intervene.

¹⁸They arrested the apostles and threw them in the public jail.

¹⁹But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and led them out.

²⁰“Go to the Temple and tell the people everything about this new way of life!” he told them.

²¹They did as they were told and went into the Temple at around dawn and began teaching. Then the high priest and his followers called a council meeting with all the leaders of Israel. He sent for the apostles to be brought from prison.

²²But when the officials went to the prison they couldn't find the apostles so they went back and told the council,

²³“We found the prison all locked up, with guards at the doors. But when we had them open up, we couldn't find anyone inside.”

²⁴Now when the captain of the Temple guards and the chief priests heard this they were totally baffled, and wondered what was going on.

²⁵Then someone came in and said, “Look, the men you put in prison are right there in the Temple teaching people!”

²⁶So the captain went with his guards and brought them in, but did not use force because they were afraid that the people would stone them.

²⁷The apostles were brought in and made to stand in front of the council.