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Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)
Acts 5:23
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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!
