Acts 5:12-26

12Meanwhile, through the hands of the emissaries many signs and wonders were happening among the people. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.

13But no one else dared to join them, though the people continued to think highly of them.

14Yet more than ever those trusting in the Lord were added—large numbers of men and women.

15They even carried the sick into the streets and laid them on stretchers and cots, so that when Peter passed by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

16Crowds were also gathering from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing those who were sick or tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.

17But the kohen gadol rose up, and all those with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

18They grabbed the emissaries and put them in a public jail.

19But during the night an angel of Adonai opened the prison doors, and leading them out he said,

20“Go, stand in the Temple and speak to the people the whole message about this Life.”

21Now when they heard that, they entered the Temple at daybreak and began teaching. When the kohen gadol and those with him arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin, even the council of elders of Bnei-Yisrael, and sent to the prison to have the prisoners brought in.

22But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison. So they returned and reported,

23saying, “We found the prison locked with maximum security and the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened up, we found no one inside.”

24When the captain of the Temple and the ruling kohanim heard these words, they were perplexed about them, wondering where this would lead.

25But someone came and reported to them, “The men you put in prison are standing in the Temple and teaching the people!”

26Then the captain went off with the officers and brought the emissaries—but not with force, because they feared they might be stoned by the people.