Acts 5:22
20 “Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
21 At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:
23 “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:
- KJV
- But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
- WEB
- But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
- ASV
- But the officers that came found them not in the prison; and they returned, and told,
- DARBY
- And when the officers were come, they did not find them in the prison; and returned and reported
- BLB
- But the officers, having come, did not find them in the prison. And having returned, they reported back,
- ÅB
- Men de tjenere som kom dit, fant dem ikke i fengslet; de kom da tilbake og meldte:
- OTB
- Men da offiserene ankom, fant de dem ikke i fengselet, så de vendte tilbake og rapporterte,
- B1930
- Men de tjenere som kom dit, fant dem ikke i fengslet; de kom da tilbake og meldte: