And that was how I acted in Jerusalem. Armed with authority received from the High Priests I shut up many of God's people in various prisons, and when they were about to be put to death I gave my vote against them.

But Saul cruelly harassed the Church. He went into house after house, and, dragging off both men and women, threw them into prison.

So Peter was kept in prison; but long and fervent prayer was offered to God by the Church on his behalf.

Now when Herod was on the point of taking him out of prison, that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards were on duty outside the door.

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

But the officers went and could not find them in the prison. So they came back and brought word,

And some one came and brought them word, saying, "The men you put in prison are actually in the Temple, standing there, teaching the people."