Acts 5:23
“Saying, The prison truely found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doores, but when we had opened, we found no man within.”
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Acts 5:23 Context
21And when they heard that, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, & taught: but the high Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to haue them brought. 22But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told, 23Saying, The prison truely found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doores, but when we had opened, we found no man within. 24Now when the high Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the chiefe Priests heard these things, they doubted of them wherunto this would grow. 25Then came one, and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teaching the people.
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Other Translations for 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.
- King James Version
saying, "We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
saying, The prison-house we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing at the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.
- Basic English Bible
saying, We found the prison shut with all security, and the keepers standing at the doors; but when we had opened [them], within we found no one.
- Darby Bible
Saying, The prison truly we found shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
- Webster's Bible
saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."
- Weymouth Bible
We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!
- World English Bible
and teelden, and seiden, We founden the prisoun schit with al diligence, and the keperis stondynge at the yatis; but we opneden, and founden no man ther ynne.
- Wycliffe Bible
saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Acts 5:23
5:23 We found the prison shut - The angel probably had shut the doors again.
People's Bible Notes for Acts 5:23
Ac 5:23 The prison truly found we shut. All was as usual and the guards before the doors, but the prisoners gone.