Acts 5:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁵ [Just then] someone came in and said, “Look, the men you put in jail are [now] standing in the Temple teaching people.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ But some man came and reported to them, saying, Listen! The men whom you put in jail are standing [right here] in the temple and teaching the people!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And there came one and told them, Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Just then, someone arrived and announced, “Look! The people you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ But someone arrived and reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you placed in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ But one came and told them: Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple standing, and teaching the people.

Acts 5:25 Cross References

Matthew 10:18

Yes, you will [even] be brought in front of governors and kings for being loyal to me. [This will give you an opportunity] for witnessing to them [as well] as to the [unconverted] Gentiles.

John 11:46

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Acts 3:1

Now Peter and John were going to the Temple at three o’clock one afternoon [Note: Jewish time calculations are employed here], during the regular [Jewish] prayer hour.

Acts 5:24

Now when the captain of the Temple [guard] and the leading priests heard about this, they became frustrated over how far this [teaching] would [eventually] spread.

Acts 5:26

[Immediately] the captain, with his officers, went [to the Temple] and brought the apostles back again, but did not use any violence because they feared that the people might stone them.