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Then the high Priest rose vp, and al they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadduces) and were filled with indignation,

And laid their hands on the Apostles, & put them in the common prison.

But the Angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doores, and brought them foorth, and said,

Goe, stand and speake in the Temple to the people all the words of this life.

And when they heard that, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, & taught: but the high Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to haue them brought.

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

Saying, The prison truely found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doores, but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Now when the high Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the chiefe Priests heard these things, they doubted of them wherunto this would grow.

Then came one, and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teaching the people.

Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned.)