Acts 5:23
Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
22But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and tolde it,
Cross References
Psalms 2:4But he that dwelleth in the heauen, shall laugh: the Lord shall haue them in derision.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.
Lamentations 3:55I called vpon thy Name, O Lord, out of the lowe dungeon.
Daniel 6:22My God hath sent his Angel and hath shut the lyons mouthes, that they haue not hurt mee: for my iustice was founde out before him: and vnto thee, O King, I haue done no hurt.
Matthew 28:12And they gathered them together with the Elders, and tooke counsell, and gaue large money vnto the souldiers,
Acts 5:19But the Angel of the Lord, by night opened the prison doores, and brought them forth, and sayd,
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 →