Acts of the Apostles

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.

Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.

But 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,

and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

"Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."

When 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, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

"We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we had opened it up, we found no one inside!"

Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,