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Uncomfortable Power

Acts 5:25-28

Then someone came and said, 'Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts 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 the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 'We gave you strict orders not to teach 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.' (NIVUK)

Although the jealous High Priests had imprisoned the apostles overnight, God sent an angel to open the jail doors and let them out in the middle of the night (Acts 5:17-19). But instead of hiding away for their own safety, the next morning they were back in the temple, teaching about Jesus (Acts 5:20-21). Their joyful liberty mocked their forcible arrest the previous evening and, when this was reported to the court, temple guards did not want to be stoned by the admiring crowds around the apostles ... so politely asked them to walk to the court.