Acts 5:14-27

¹⁴Also the number of them that beleeued in the Lord, both of men and women, grewe more and more)

¹⁵In so much that they brought the sicke into the streetes, and layd them on beds and couches, that at the least way the shadowe of Peter, when he came by, might shadow some of them.

¹⁶There came also a multitude out of the cities round about vnto Hierusalem, bringing sicke folkes, and them which were vexed with vncleane spirits, who were all healed.

¹⁷Then the chiefe Priest rose vp, and all they that were with him (which was the sect of the Sadduces) and were full of indignation,

¹⁸And laide hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.

¹⁹But the Angel of the Lord, by night opened the prison doores, and brought them forth, and sayd,

²⁰Go your way, and stand in the Temple, and speake to the people, all the wordes of this life.

²¹So when they heard it, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, and taught. And the chiefe Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison, to cause them to be brought.

²²But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and tolde it,

²³Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

²⁴Then when the chiefe Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the hie Priestes heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would growe.

²⁵Then came one and shewed them, saying, Beholde, the men that ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teach the people.

²⁶Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned)

²⁷And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the chiefe Priest asked them,