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And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,
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so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and pallets, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
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The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
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But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sad'ducees, and filled with jealousy
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they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison.
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But at 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 speak to the people all the words of this Life."
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And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and taught. Now the high priest came and those who were with him and called together the council and all the senate of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
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But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,
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"We found the prison securely locked and the sentries standing at the doors, but when we opened it we found no one inside."
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Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.