Acts 5:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.”

Cross References

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.

Acts 5:19

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, brought them out, and said,

John 8:59

So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Lamentations 3:37

Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Acts 5:22

But when the temple police went there, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,

Acts 5:24

Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were perplexed about them, wondering what might be going on.