Acts 5:11-23

¹¹So great fear came on the whole assembly and on all who heard these things.

¹²Now many signs and wonders were being performed among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all in Solomon's Porch with one purpose.

¹³None of the rest dared to join them, but the people were magnifying them.

¹⁴Believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

¹⁵to the point that they kept carrying the sick into the streets, placing them on cots and pallets, so that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

¹⁶Further, the multitude from the surrounding cities also kept coming into Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

¹⁷Then the high priest rose up, and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees); they were filled with jealousy

¹⁸and laid their hands on the Apostles and put them in the common prison.

¹⁹But, during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, and leading them out he said,

²⁰“Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”

²¹So upon hearing it they entered the temple about daybreak and started to teach. Then the high priest and those with him arrived and convened the Sanhedrin, even all the council of elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

²²Well, upon arriving the operatives did not find them in the jail, so they returned and reported,

²³saying: “We certainly found the prison securely locked, and the guards standing in front of the doors, but upon opening them we found no one inside!”