We're going to be in Acts chapter 5, verse 17 through verse 42. Amen. All right, this is our,

this is our teaching text. Then the high priest and all the associates who were members of the party

of the sadducees were filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in public jail

but during the night an angel of the lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out go stand, stand in the temple courts, he said, and tell the people

all about this new life. At daybreak, they entered the temple courts as they had been told

and began to teach the people. When the high priests and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedron, the full assembly of the elders of Israel, and sent to the jail for the apostles.

But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they went back and reported, we found the jail securely locked, the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them,

we found no one inside. On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief

priests were at a loss, wondering what this might lead to. Then someone came and said, look,

the men you put in jail were, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts

and teaching the people.

At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles.

They did not use force because they feared that the people would stone them.

The apostles were brought in and made to appear before this

inhedron to be questioned by the high priest. We gave you strict orders not in this name,

he said. Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty

of this man's blood.

Peter and the other disciples replied, we must obey God rather than human beings.

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead whom you kill by hanging him on a cross.

God exalted him to his own right hand as prince and as Savior, that we might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins. We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy

Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him. When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.

But a Pharisee named Gamamiel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people,

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