12Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico.

13None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem.

14And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

15so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

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

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

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

19But 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."

21And 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 and all the senate of the people of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought.

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

23"We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside."

24Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.

25And someone came and told them, "Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people."

26Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.