Acts 5:22-32 - The Apostles On Trial Again

22 But as the attendants did not find them when they got to the prison, they came back to report, 23 "We found the prison safely locked up with the sentries posted at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one inside!" 24 On hearing this the commander of the temple and the high priests were quite at a loss to know what to make of it.

25 However, someone came and reported to them, "Here are the very men you put in prison, standing in the temple and teaching the people!" 26 At this the commander went off with the attendants and fetched them ??but without using violence, for fear that the people would pelt them with stones. 27 They conducted them before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked them, 28 "We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!"

29 Peter and the apostles answered, "One must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you murdered by hanging him on a gibbet. 31 God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel. 32 To these facts we bear witness, with the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him."