Acts 5:16-23

¹⁶Besides this, the inhabitants of the towns around Jerusalem flocked into the city, bringing with them their sick and those who were troubled by foul spirits; and they were cured everyone.

¹⁷At this the high priest was roused to action, and he and all his supporters (who formed the party of the Sadducees), moved by jealousy,

¹⁸arrested the apostles, and had them placed in custody.

¹⁹An angel of the Lord, however, opened the prison doors at night and led them out.

²⁰“Go,” he said, “and stand in the Temple Courts, and tell the people the whole message of this new life.”

²¹When they heard this, they went at daybreak into the Temple Courts, and began to teach. The high priest and his party, on their arrival, summoned the High Council, including all the leaders of the people among the Israelites, and sent to the jail to fetch the apostles.

²²But, when the officers got there, they did not find them in the prison; so they returned and reported that,

²³while they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found anyone inside.