Add parallel Print Page Options

21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest and those who were with him came and called the council together, with all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported, 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!”

Read full chapter

21 And when they heard that, they entered the temple early in the morning and taught. (A)But the high priest and those with him came and called the [a]council together, with all the [b]elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Apostles on Trial Again

22 But when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported, 23 saying, “Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing [c]outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Acts 5:21 Sanhedrin
  2. Acts 5:21 council of elders or senate
  3. Acts 5:23 NU, M omit outside