Lesson 4613

 (Lesson 4613)(09-20-24) Acts 5:17-25 

   “Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told, Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within. Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto 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.” 

 

   In today’s quote, the leadership of the Jews, filled with anger, arrested Peter and John and put them in prison. During the night, an angel of the Lord miraculously freed them and instructed them to continue preaching in the temple. The next day, the Jewish leaders found the prison securely locked but empty, as the apostles had returned to the temple, teaching the people about Jesus, as the angel of God had instructed them to do. This passage highlights divine intervention and the apostles' faith in continuing their mission despite threats from the Jewish authority. ~