Handelingen 5:23

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Wij hebben de gevangenis stevig gesloten gevonden, en de wachters stonden bij de deur, maar toen wij die openden, vonden wij daarbinnen niemand.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en zeiden: De gevangenis vonden wij met alle zorg toegesloten, en de wachters daarbuiten staande voor de deuren; maar toen wij haar open deden, vonden wij niemand daarbinnen.

Staten Vertaling
Zeggende: Wij vonden wel den kerker met alle verzekerdheid toegesloten, en de wachters buiten staande voor de deuren; maar als wij die geopend hadden, vonden wij niemand daarbinnen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The prison: Acts 5:19, Psalms 2:4, Psalms 33:10, Proverbs 21:30, Lamentations 3:37, Lamentations 3:55-58, Daniel 3:11-25, Daniel 6:22-24, Matthew 27:63-66, Matthew 28:12-15, John 8:59

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:7 - they shut Daniel 3:24 - astonied Acts 12:6 - and the Acts 16:23 - to keep

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, the prison truly found we shut with all safety,.... Locked, barred and bolted;

and the keepers standing without before the doors; both inner and outer in their proper places, diligently discharging their office:

but when we had opened we found no man within; that is, none of the apostles, for there might be other prisoners in it, who were not released by this means.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Found we shut - It had not been broken open; and there was therefore clear proof that they had been delivered by the interposition of God. Nor could they have been released by the guard, for they were keeping watch, as if unconscious that anything had happened, and the officers had the only means of entering the prison.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 5:23. The prison truly found we shut — All the doors were properly bolted, and the keepers at their post; but when we had opened, for it appears they were alone in possession of the keys; how much must this have increased their astonishment when they found that the doors were not broken open, the guards properly posted, and every thing as they left it, for they themselves had put the apostles in prison; but, when they had opened, there was no man within!