Acts 5:25
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.
24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
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
- Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”
- KJV
- Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
- WEB
- One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”
- ASV
- And there came one and told them, Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people.
- DARBY
- And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.
- BLB
- And a certain one, having come, reported to them, “Behold, the men whom you⁺ put in the prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”
- ÅB
- Da kom det en og meldte dem: Se, de menn som dere kastet i fengsel, står i templet og lærer folket.
- OTB
- Da kom noen og sa: “Se! Mennene dere satte i fengsel står i tempelgårdene og underviser folket.”
- B1930
- Da kom det en og meldte dem: Se, de menn som I kastet i fengsel, står i templet og lærer folket.