Acts 5:23

and said: We found the prison carefully closed, and also the keepers standing before the doors; and we opened, but found no one there.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 those sent by them went, they found them not in the prison; and they returned and came back,

24And when the chief priests and rulers of the temple heard these words, they were astonished at them; and they studied what this could mean.

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Cross References

Matthew 28:12And they assembled with the Elders, and held a council; and they gave no little money to the guards,

Acts 5:19Then the angel of the Lord, by night, opened the door of the prison, and let them out; 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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