Acts 5:23

saying: We found the prison closed with all safety, and the guards standing before the doors; but when we had opened, we found no one within.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

22But when the attendants came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and reported,

24When the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt about them, what this could mean.

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Cross References

Matthew 28:12And when they came together with the elders, they held a consultation, and gave much money to the soldiers,

Acts 5:19But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison by night, and brought them out, and said:

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:18-26

The Apostles Imprisoned; The Apostles Released by an Angel; The Disappointment of the Council. 17 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, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. 19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. 21 And when they heard that, they… Read the whole commentary →

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