Acts 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Saying, The prison [truly] found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing [without] before the doors - rather, 'at the doors' х epi (G1909) here being preferable to pro (G4253)]. The bracketed words х men (G3303) and exoo (G1854)] want authority.

But when we had opened, we found no man within. This miracle, it will be observed, was precisely the converse of that recorded in Acts 16:26, where, though all the prison doors were thrown open, none of the prisoners sought to escape: here, while all the doors were fast shut, the imprisoned apostles were found at large without.

Acts 5:23

23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.