25 Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!” 26 At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them. 27 They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.
Acts 5:25–27
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