Acts 5:12-21

Many Signs and Wonders Done

12 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people ¹by the hands of the apostles. And they were all ²together in ³Solomon’s Portico.

13 None of the rest dared join them, but ⁴the people held them in high esteem.

14 And ⁵more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

15 ⁶so that they even ⁷carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by ⁸at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

16 The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, ⁹bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

The Apostles Arrested and Freed

17 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of ¹⁰the Sadducees), and filled with ¹¹jealousy

18 they arrested the apostles and ¹²put them in the public prison.

19 But during the night ¹³an angel of the Lord ¹⁴opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

20 “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all ¹⁵the words of ¹⁶this ¹⁷Life. ”

21 And when they heard this, ¹⁸they entered the temple ¹⁹at daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Cross References

• 1. 5:12 ch. 2:43; 4:30; 14:3; 19:11; Mark 16:20; Rom. 15:19; 2 Cor. 12:12; Heb. 2:4
• 2. 5:12 See ch. 1:14
• 3. 5:12 ch. 3:11; John 10:23
• 4. 5:13 ver. 26; ch. 2:47; 4:21
• 5. 5:14 [ch. 6:1, 2]
• 6. 5:15 [ch. 19:12]
• 7. 5:15 Mark 6:55, 56
• 8. 5:15 [2 Kgs. 4:29; Matt. 14:36]
• 9. 5:16 Mark 16:17, 18
• 10. 5:17 See Matt. 22:23
• 11. 5:17 ch. 13:45; James 3:14, 16; [ch. 7:9; 17:5]
• 12. 5:18 See Luke 21:12
• 13. 5:19 See ch. 8:26
• 14. 5:19 ch. 12:10; 16:26
• 15. 5:20 [John 6:63, 68; Phil. 2:16]
• 16. 5:20 [ch. 13:46; 22:4; 28:28]
• 17. 5:20 ch. 3:15; 11:18
• 18. 5:21 ver. 25, 42
• 19. 5:21 [John 8:2]