Acts 5:22-32 - The Apostles On Trial Again
22 but the officers who went there not finding them in the prison, returned, and made this report, 23 the prison we found shut very secure, and the keepers posted before the doors: but when we had opened it, we found no body within. 24 Upon hearing this, the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests wonder'd bow this could be.
25 when somebody came and told them, the men whom ye order'd to prison, are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. 26 upon which the captain went with his officers, and brought them, without offering any violence, for fear of being stoned, he and his men by the people. 27 when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 saying, did not we strictly command you, not to teach in this name? and yet you have spread your doctrine through Jerusalem, and you endeavour to make us responsible for this man's blood.
29 then Peter and the other apostles made answer, we ought to obey God rather than men. 30 the God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, and hanged on a tree. 31 him hath God rais'd by his power to be the author of salvation, by giving repentance to Israel, and the remission of their sins. 32 and we are his witnesses in what we say, and so is the holy spirit, whom God hath given to those that obey him.