Acts 5:23

and said, We found the house of the bound shut carefully, and the keepers standing at the gates: and we opened, but no man found we there.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

22And when they who were sent from them went, they found them not (in) the house of the bound; and they returned, and came,

24And when the chief priests and rulers of the temple heard these words, they were astounded by them, and reasoned, what this was.

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Cross References

Matthew 28:12And they assembled with the elders, and took counsel; and they gave money not a little to the guards,

Acts 5:19Then in the night the angel of the Lord opened the gate of the house of the bound, and brought them forth, and said to them,

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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