6. The young men got up and wrapped him in a shroud, then carried him out and buried him.
7. After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
8. Peter responded to her, “Tell me if you sold the land for this much.” She said, “Yes, for that much.”
9. Then Peter said to her, “How did you agree to test the Ruach Adonai? Look, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door—they will carry you out, too!”
10. Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came back in, they found her dead and carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
11. And great fear came over the whole community and all who heard these things.
12. Meanwhile, through the hands of the emissaries many signs and wonders were happening among the people. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.
13. But no one else dared to join them, though the people continued to think highly of them.
14. Yet more than ever those trusting in the Lord were added—large numbers of men and women.
15. They 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.
16. Crowds were also gathering from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing those who were sick or tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.
17. But the kohen gadol rose up, and all those with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.
18. They grabbed the emissaries and put them in a public jail.
19. But 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.”
21. Now 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.
22. But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison. So they returned and reported,
23. saying, “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.”
24. When the captain of the Temple and the ruling kohanim heard these words, they were perplexed about them, wondering where this would lead.
25. But someone came and reported to them, “The men you put in prison are standing in the Temple and teaching the people!”