Acts 5:22-32

22 But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,

23 "We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside."

24 Now when ¹the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.

25 And someone came and told them, "Look! The men whom you put in prison ²are standing in the temple and teaching the people."

26 Then ³the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for ⁴they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,

28 saying, ⁵"We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you ⁶intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

29 But Peter and the apostles answered, ⁷"We must obey God rather than men.

30 ⁸The God of our fathers ⁹raised Jesus, ¹⁰whom you killed by hanging him on ¹¹a tree.

31 God exalted ¹²him at his right hand as ¹³Leader and ¹⁴Savior, ¹⁵to give ¹⁶repentance to Israel and ¹⁷forgiveness of sins.

32 And ¹⁸we are witnesses to these things, and ¹⁹so is the Holy Spirit, ²⁰whom God has given to those who obey him."