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Acts 5:22

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But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But the officers that came found them not in the prison; and they returned, and told,

KJV

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

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This verse in Acts 5

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

did not find them there

on Acts 5:22-26

The officers find the jail securely locked with the guards at the doors, yet no one inside. The captain brings the apostles back without force, for fear the people would stone them, the crowd's favor now a shield.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers2 voices

A commentator

Oecumenius

Commentary on Acts · Written before 550.

proposed

When these things were completed by the apostles, and the multitude was increased by the preaching, and the number of the faithful was already growing great by the daily distribution; the high priest, he says, having risen, that is, being aroused and stirred by what …

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 13 · Written before 407.

proposed

It is well ordered that the information was not brought to them at once, but they are first utterly at a loss what to think, that when they have considered it well and seen that there is a Divine Power in the case, then they may learn the whole state of the case.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They last time they were forthcoming when they were called for, ch. iv. But now they were gone, and the report which the officers make is, " The prison-doors truly found we shut with all safety " (nothing had been done to weaken them); " the keepers had not been

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes

But when the officers came,.... The Arabic version adds, "to it"; that is, to the prison; and found them not in the prison.

The words behind it

13 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • οἱ<the>

    hoiG3588 →19766 times

  • δὲAnd

    deG1161 →2765 times

  • παραγενόμενοιhaving come

    paragenomenoiG3854 →36 times

  • ὑπηρέται[the] officers

    huperetaiG5257 →20 times

  • οὐχnot

    ouchG3756 →1664 times

  • εὗρονdid find

    heuronG2147 →175 times

  • αὐτοὺςthem

    autousG846 →5565 times

  • ἐνin

    enG1722 →2738 times

  • τῇthe

    teaG3588 →19766 times

  • φυλακῇ.prison.

    phulakeaG5438 →47 times

  • ἀναστρέψαντεςhaving returned

    anastrepsantesG390 →

  • δὲthen

    deG1161 →2765 times

  • ἀπήγγειλανthey reported back

    apengeilanG518 →43 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Acts

The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
Acts: the study guide →Read Acts 5 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on Acts; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 13; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Oecumenius, Commentary on Acts.

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