Acts 5:16-23

¹⁶The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits; and they were all healed.

¹⁷But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

¹⁸and laid hands on the emissaries, then put them in public custody.

¹⁹But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

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

²¹When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest and those who were with him came and called the council together, with all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

²²But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

²³“We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”