Acts 5:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to naught; 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 at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said,

John 8:59

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

Lamentations 3:37

Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Proverbs 21:30

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

Acts 5:22

But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,

Acts 5:24

Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.