23. “We found the prison securely shut and the guards standing outside before the doors. But when we opened it, we found no one inside.”
24. Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these things, they were in doubt of what might become of this.
25. Then one came and told them, “Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
26. Then the captain with his escorts went and brought them, without force lest they should be stoned, for they feared the people.
27. When they had brought them, they stood them before the Sanhedrin. And the high priest questioned them,
28. saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? Yet now you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring on us this Man’s blood.”
29. Peter and the other apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
30. The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging on a tree.