Acts 5:8-25

⁸Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”

⁹Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

¹⁰She immediately fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in, they found her dead, and carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

¹¹Great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard these things.

¹²Many signs and wonders were taking place among the people through the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon's Porch.

¹³But no one else had the courage to join them; however, they were held in high esteem by the people.

¹⁴Still more believers were being added to the Lord, multitudes of men and women,

¹⁵so that they even carried the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, so that as Peter came by, his shadow might fall on some of them.

¹⁶There also came together a great number of people from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with 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 apostles, and put them in the public jail.

¹⁹Yet during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and led them out, and said,

²⁰“Go, stand in the temple and speak 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 came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, all the elders of the people of Israel, and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought.

²²But the officers that went did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,

²³“We found the jail securely shut and the guards standing at the door, but when we had opened it, we found no one inside.”

²⁴Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them as to what would come of it.

²⁵Then someone came and told them, “The men whom you put in the jail are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”