Acts 5:6–21

⁶Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body,^g and carried him out and buried him.

⁷About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. ⁸Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”^h

⁹Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord?ⁱ Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

¹⁰At that moment she fell down at his feet and died.^j Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.^{k 11}Great fear^l seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

The Apostles Heal Many

¹²The apostles performed many signs and wonders^m among the people. And all the believers used to meet togetherⁿ in Solomon’s Colonnade.^{o 13}No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people.^{p 14}Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.^{q 15}As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.^{r 16}Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.^s

The Apostles Persecuted

¹⁷Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party^t of the Sadducees,^u were filled with jealousy. ¹⁸They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.^{v 19}But during the night an angel^w of the Lord opened the doors of the jail^x and brought them out.^{y 20}“Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”^z

²¹At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people.

When the high priest and his associates^a arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin^b—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.