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But none of the others dared to attach themselves to them. Yet the people held them in high honour--
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and more and more believers in the Lord joined them, including great numbers both of men and women--
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so that they would even bring out their sick friends into the streets and lay them on light couches or mats, in order that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or other of them.
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The inhabitants, too, of the towns in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem came in crowds, bringing sick persons and some who were harassed by foul spirits, and they were cured, one and all.
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This roused the High Priest. He and all his party--the sect of the Sadducees--were filled with angry jealousy
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and laid hands upon the Apostles, and put them into the public jail.
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But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,
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"Go and stand in the Temple, and go on proclaiming to the people all this Message of Life."
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Having received that command they went into the Temple, just before daybreak, and began to teach: So when the High Priest and his party came, and had called together the Sanhedrin as well as all the Elders of the descendants of Israel, they sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.
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But the officers went and could not find them in the prison. So they came back and brought word,
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saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."