Acts 5:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Psalm 2:4

Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

Proverbs 21:30

Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

John 8:59

So they took up stones to send at him: but Jesus got secretly out of their way and went out of the Temple.

Acts 5:19

But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,

Acts 5:22

But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,

Acts 5:24

Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business.