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Acts 5:22

22, 23. After some delay, the officers returned into the presence of the Sanhedrim without their prisoners. (22) "But when the officers arrived, and did not find them in the prison, they returned and announced, (23) saying, The prison we found closed with all safety, and the guards standing before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one within." This appalling circumstance would have been sufficient, with less determined men, to stay all hostile proceedings, and even to disperse the court who had assembled for the trial for the apostles.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    ACTS 5:21-22 The Western text of these verses is variously preserved in D E and other witnesses. Instead of the opening words avkou,santej de,, E reads evxelqo,ntej de. evk th/j fulakh/j, which is re...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1)._ 2. Signs and wonders by the Apostles (Acts 5:11). 3. The second arrest of the Apostles and their Deliverance (Acts 5:17). 4. Before the Council ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A HOSTILE ENCOUNTER WITH THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. This account closely resembles that in ch. 4; the imprisonment is at the hands of the same men, extends over one night, and Peter's two declarations (A...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    But the high priest and his party (the local sect of the Sadducees) were filled with envy, and they laid hands on the apostles and put them under public arrest. But through the night the angel of the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OFFICERS. App-190. See note on 2 John 1:7; 2 John 1:7 :32. John 18:3. TOLD. Same as "reported", Acts 4:23....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But when the officers came_ The name may imply a military body or it may have been only some of the Levitical guard who were sent. The same word is used (Luke 4:20) of the "minister" of the synagogue...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ARREST OF THE TWELVE. THEIR MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE AND THEIR DEFENCE BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΟἹ ΔῈ ΠΑΡΑΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΙ ὙΠΗΡΈΤΑΙ with אAB. The _Vulg_. has ‘cum autem venissent ministri.’ 22. ΟἹ ΔῈ ΠΑΡΑΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΙ ὙΠΗΡΈΤΑΙ, _but the officers that came_. The word may refer to some military body, or it...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE POWER OF A PURIFIED CHURCH ACTS 5:12-25:_ During this period of progress for the church miracles were worked by the apostles. The people were fearful of the apostles. Amazingly, the result was gr...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΎΠΗΡΈΤΗΣ (G5257) помощник, служитель, храмовый стражник (Barrett; _см._ Acts 4:1). ΕΎΡΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 5:10. ΆΝΑΣΤΡΈΨΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΝΑΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G390) оборачиваться сн...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ON SOLOMON'S PORCH. Acts 5:21 a Acts 5:21 And when they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. ACTS 5:21 A As the sun broke over the eastern horizon of the hills of Jud...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told, BUT WHEN THE OFFICERS CAME, AND FOUND THEM NOT IN THE PRISON, THEY RETURNED, AND TOLD,...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    14 The fear of the drawn sword in the King's hand will repress evil and rebellion. The prayer of the disciples, after the threats of the Sanhedrin, seems to have been abundantly answered. Not only was...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Second imprisonment of Peter and John. Speech of Gamaliel. 17. The Sadducees] see on Matthew 3:7; Acts 4:1....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE APOSTLES AGAIN IMPRISONED 1-16. The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was not keeping back part of the price, which they had a perfect right to do (Acts 5:4), but pretending that the money which they of...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, 5:1-11 V1 But there was a man whose name was Ananias. He and his wife, Sapphira, sold a building and some land. The bui...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ὑπηρέται : apparently some of the Temple guard, Acts 5:26; see above on ὁ στρατηγός Acts 4:1, and Edersheim, _Temple and its Services_, pp. 119, 120. In the N.T. the word is not used of the military....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    DELIVERED TO TESTIFY Acts 5:12-26 While the Holy Spirit works mightily _within_ the Church, He co-operates with it in its _outward_ operations by adding men and women to the Lord. None should be adde...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have a terrible story. The account of Ananias and Sapphira stands in vivid contrast to that of Barnabas. The sin was dishonest dealing with the Holy Spirit. The judgment was swift and terrible...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The Apostles Imprisoned Seeing the high regard the apostles were held in by the people and knowing the number being added to the church moved the high priest and the Sadducees to jealousy. They caused...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and were filled with indignation, (18) And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the co...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Alas! evil shews itself there also (Chapter 5). If the mighty Spirit of God is there, the flesh also is there. There are some who wished to have the credit of devotedness which the Holy Ghost produces...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT WHEN THE OFFICERS CAME,.... The Arabic version adds, "to it"; that is, to the prison; AND FOUND THEM NOT IN THE PRISON. The Vulgate Latin version reads, "the prison being opened they found them n...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told, Ver. 22. _But when the officers came_] As at a lottery, they came with heads full of hopes, but returned with he...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors_ In spite of all the locks and bars that were upon them, and without giving any alarm to the keepers, or any of the other prisoners; _and brought the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT WHEN THE OFFICERS CAME AND FOUND THEM NOT IN THE PRISON, THEY RETURNED AND TOLD,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Sadducees receive a surprise:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Where God is working, however, the opposition of Satan soon becomes apparent. The evil begins (as evil always does) in an underhand manner, but is quickly exposed by God. Ananias and Sapphira certainl...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    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 OUTSIDE BEFORE THE DOORS; BU...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-25 There is no prison so dark, so strong, but God can visit his people in it, and, if he pleases, fetch them out. Recoveries from sickness, releases out of trouble, are granted, not that we may en...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    These men, thus sent to hinder the spreading of the gospel, could not but be a means of confirming it, when they saw, and declared what they found; so easily can God make use of what is intended again...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    22, 23. After some delay, the officers returned into the presence of the Sanhedrim without their prisoners. (22) "_ But when the officers arrived, and did not find them in the prison, they returned an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 5:22 But G1161 officers G5257 came G3854 (G5637) not G3756 find G2147 (G5627) them G846 in...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But the officers who came did not find them in the prison; and they returned, and told, saying, “The prison-house we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing at the doors, but when we had o...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND ARREST. THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD IS REVEALED BY THE OPENING OF PRISON DOORS (5:17-24). In view of the fact that the Apostles were openly defying the stricture of the previous council, and wer...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THE OFFICERS (ο υπηρετα). Under-rowers, literally (Matthew 5:25). The servants or officers who executed the orders of the Sanhedrin.SHUT (κεκλεισμενον). Perfect passive participle of κλειω. Shut...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sin and death of Ananias and Sapphira. The second persecution and answer of apostles to their persecutors. Warning of Gamaliel. Apostles beaten. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ananias, Sapph...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 5:3. _Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost._ These words not only indicate that Ananias was a minister of the word, but that he for once had yielded his heart to th...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    22-23. WE FOUND IT LOCKED UP TIGHT. They cannot explain why the apostles were not in the prison....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And when they heard that they entered into the temple … But the high priest … called the council together._ THE CHARACTERISTICS OF OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH The contrast is very graphic. The apostles...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then the high priest rose up._ VAIN EFFORTS TO OPPOSE THE GOSPEL I. The effort in this case; by the imprisonment of the leaders of the gospel (Acts 5:17). The whole Jewish authority was in oppositi...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 5:17. THE HIGH PRIEST.—Annas, as in Acts 4:6. INDIGNATION.—Not envy or jealousy (R.V.), but hot, angry zeal. Acts 5:19. Not THE but AN ANGEL OF THE LORD; _i.e._, sent by the L...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 5:1 ANANIAS (Ἀνανίας) In Nehemiah 3:23 the Hebrew name היָנְנַעֲ (God covers or protects) is thus rendered in the LXX. But the name occurs nowhere else. The very common name היָנְנ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 5, the book of Acts. At the end of the fourth chapter we have the second mention of the early pure communism that was practiced in the first church. Where those who had possessions sold them,...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Officers [υ π η ρ ε τ α ι] See on Matthew 5:25....

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF APOSTOLIC TESTIMONY Acts 5:17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Those were momentous days. On the part of the Apostles they were days of continued testimony, God working with miracles an...

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