Acts 5:19-23

19But during the night, one of the Lord God's angels came and he opened the prison gates. He led the apostles out of the prison.

20The angel said to them, ‘Go and stand in the yard of the temple. Tell the people everything about this new life that God gives.’

21The apostles did what the angel told them to do. At dawn they went into the yard of the temple. They began to teach the people there. Then the most important priest and his friends arrived. They told the group of Jewish leaders to meet with them. All the most important people in Israel were in that group. Then they sent their police to the prison to bring the apostles to the meeting place.

22But when the police arrived at the prison, they did not find the apostles there. So the police returned to the Jewish leaders and they told them the news.

23They said, ‘We arrived at the prison. We saw that the soldiers had locked the gates. They were standing at the gates and they were watching carefully. But when we opened the gates of the prison, we did not find anyone there!’