Acts 5:17-26 - The Apostles Arrested And Imprisoned

¹⁷ Then the high priest rose up, and all that were with him, (being of the sect of the sadducees,) and were filled with rage: ¹⁸ and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the public prison. ¹⁹ But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison by night, and having brought them out said, ²⁰ "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." ²¹ And hearing this, they went early in the morning into the temple and taught the people. But the high priest being come, and they that were with him, to the council-chamber, they called together the Sanhedrim, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent orders to the prison that they should be brought before them. ²² But when the officers came they found them not in the prison: so they returned, ²³ and told them, saying, the prison we found shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we opened them, we found no body within. ²⁴ Now when the high priest, and the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt concerning them, what this would come to;

²⁵ when there came one and told them, saying, behold, the men whom ye put in prison, are in the temple teaching the people. ²⁶ Then the captain went with the officers and brought them, but not with violence; for they were afraid of the people least they should be stoned: