Acts 5:23
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.
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22But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,
Cross References
Psalms 2:4He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Lamentations 3:55I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Daniel 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt.
Matthew 28:12And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
Acts 5:19But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, 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 →