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Acts 5:22

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But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

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Acts 5:22 in other translations

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

Acts 5:22 · American Standard Version

Acts 5:22 in context

  1. 20“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
  2. 21When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
  3. 22But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
  4. 23“We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”
  5. 24Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.