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Acts 5:16-22 English Standard Version (ESV)

16. The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

17. But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy

18. they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.

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

20. “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”

21. And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach.Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

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