Acts 5:23

A Conservative Version

saying, We found the prison indeed shut in all security, and the guards standing before the doors, but after opening, we found no man inside.

Cross References

Psalm 33:10

LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naught. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.

Acts 5:19

But an agent of Lord opened the prison doors by night, and after leading them out, he said,

John 8:59

Therefore they took up stones so that they might throw at him, but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and thus passed on.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when LORD does not command it?

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.

Acts 5:22

But the subordinates who came did not find them in the prison. And having returned, they reported,

Acts 5:24

Now when they heard these words, the high priest, and the captain of the temple, and the chief priests, were perplexed about them, whatever this would become.