Acts 5:18-35

¹⁸And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.

¹⁹But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,

²⁰Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.

²¹And hearing this, they went into the Temple at dawn, and were teaching. But the high priest and those who were with him got together the Sanhedrin and the representatives of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to get them.

²²But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,

²³Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.

²⁴Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business.

²⁵And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.

²⁶Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

²⁷And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,

²⁸We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.

²⁹But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

³⁰The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.

³¹Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

³²And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

³³But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.

³⁴But one of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a man of learning in the law, of whom all the people had a high opinion, got up and made a suggestion for the men to be put outside for a little time.

³⁵And he said to them, Men of Israel, take care what you do about these men.