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Acts 5:23
“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
Acts 5:23 · Berean Standard Bible
Acts 5:23 in other translations
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.
“We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”
"We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"
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In context
20 “Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
21 At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
22 But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:
23 “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
25 Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”
26 At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
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