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Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly.
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And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
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so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.
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Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
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Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation,
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and laid their hands on 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, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life."
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And when they heard that, they entered the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
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But when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported,
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saying, "Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"