In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

ought them, they set them before the council, and
the high priest asked them, saying, Did we not
straightly command you that ye should not teach in
this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem
with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s
blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles
answered, and said, We ought to obey God rather
than man.” Yet it was contrary to law.
Paul, who had himself been a persecutor, after
he had been converted took Barnabas, and went out
preaching, contrary to law. They passed through
Asia Minor preaching the word, and on coming to
Phillippi, healed a woman possessed of an evil
spirit. “But when her master saw that the hope of
their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas,
and drew them into the market place unto the
rulers. And brought them to the Magistrates,
saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly
trouble our city.” They did not trouble the city at
all. They simply took away from the man his hope
of gain. They shut them in prison, but the prison
doors were thrown open,--God’s way of teaching
them a lesson.
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