Acts 5:6–21

⁶The young men rose and ^dwrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.

⁷After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. ⁸And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you¹ sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.” ⁹But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together ^eto test ^fthe Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.” ¹⁰Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. ¹¹And ^ggreat fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.

Many Signs and Wonders Done

¹²Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people ^hby the hands of the apostles. And they were all ⁱtogether in ^jSolomon’s Portico. ¹³None of the rest dared join them, but ^kthe people held them in high esteem. ¹⁴And ^lmore than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, ^15mso that they even ⁿcarried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by ^oat least his shadow might fall on some of them. ¹⁶The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, ^pbringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

The Apostles Arrested and Freed

¹⁷But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of ^qthe Sadducees), and filled with ^rjealousy ¹⁸they arrested the apostles and ^sput them in the public prison. ¹⁹But during the night ^tan angel of the Lord ^uopened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, ²⁰“Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all ^vthe words of ^wthis ^xLife.” ²¹And when they heard this, ^ythey entered the temple ^zat 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.