Acts 5:23

Plain English Version

“We got to the jail, and the guards were standing there, near the locked doors. We opened the doors and went inside, but we couldn’t find anyone in there.”

Cross References

John 8:59

The Jewish leaders didn’t like Jesus saying that he is always alive. That’s the same as saying he is God. So they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid from them, and then he left God’s ceremony house, and he went away.

Acts 5:19

But that night, God sent an angel messenger to Jesus’s special workers, and he opened the jail doors and let them out.

Acts 5:22

Those soldiers went to the jail, but they couldn’t find those men there. So they went back to the meeting, and they said,

Acts 5:24

The boss over the soldiers that guarded God’s ceremony house heard the soldiers say that, and so did the bosses of the Jewish ceremonies, but they didn’t understand. They thought, “How did those men get out? What will happen next?”