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Acts 5:6-22

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6And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.
7And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in.
8And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
9But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
10And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.
11Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.
12Now a number of signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all together in Solomon's covered way.
13The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;
14And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;
15And they even took into the streets people who were ill, and put them on beds, so that when Peter went by, some of them might be in his shade.
16And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill and those who were troubled with unclean spirits: and they were all made well.
17But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,
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,

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